The "space is just too big" argument doesn't work. First, there are no physics barriers to visiting other stars, purely engineering ones.
That may be true for our local neighbourhood, at present. But there are physics barriers to visiting far away stars. The expansion of the universe causes stars that we can now see to be outside our future light cone, and we can never ever reach them or even signal them.
Sending someone to jail over a plastic bag (even repeatedly) sounds an awful lot like fascism to me.
You have a wrong understanding of what fascism is. Fascism is a right-wing nationalism where corporations and government are in bed with each other. That's pretty much the opposite of what we see here. Were you thinking of "police state", perhaps?
"Tab Warming" sounds like a great, well thought out feature! Yay!
Not necessarily. Do you want the rendering of the current page to slow down because you flicked the mouse out of view, which happened to be over a tab? Do you want the machine and network to slow to a crawl because you dragged the pointer across a great many tabs on the way to the one you wanted, and they all start rendering? Do you want even higher memory/CPU use for a product that's already considered seriously bloated?
Scenario 4: There are a few hundred thousand people who will trigger the detection routines over and over again, because that's just how they look. So they get apprehended and arrested over and over again, and are unable to lead normal lives.
This, of course, is fixable - add larger, more diverse data sets and eventually the AIs will be just as good (or bad) at their job regardless of vagaries of skin tone, face shape and the like.
No, this does not follow. If you skew the input, you also skew the output. Training the AI with more images from, than the actual ratio of, people with specific characteristics introduces a bias. To get an unbiased result, you need to train it with a larger overall and unfiltered data set that is big enough to also get good results for the minorities.
The last Pentium III chip ever created was released in 2001.
This is false. The PIII 1400-S didn't come out until 2002, for example. And a couple of mobile PIII ultra-low-voltage chips were not released until 2003. With a TDP of only 7W, and being faster at P4s clocked at the same speeds, they were truly nice for many applications where a HSF assembly was out of the question, and continued to be used for new products for several years.
No, they didn't. The study and control group were all diabetes patients, where the risk of hypoglycemia is from medication. That's a very different situation than someone who has low blood sugar values for other reasons and where lowering it would bring them below a threshold and cause problems.
My response was to point out that lowering the blood sugar is not always beneficial overall. And indeed, they don't propose that either.
Open Source has always been about creating code for the community, starting a project that solves a problem and leveraging developers from all around the world to make it as great as it can be. That's it.
"Always"? Having been around for a while, I beg to differ. Open source was about seeing a problem or something fun, hacking some code for it, and to not be stuck with maintaining it, give the source away.
Anyone using the word "leveraging" when hey mean "using" isn't a hacker, but a bureaucratic cog in the machinery.
However, it's not quite that simple. I personally write software that I want to use myself, but I add features that users request or that I think users would want, even if I don't want them myself. This vastly increases the development effort, and software I could write quickly to meet my own needs ends up being hugely time consuming. It can become rather stressful
Then don't do it. If it's important enough, someone else will pick up the ball, or design a new and better ball. If it isn't, it isn't; don't let your vanity get in the way.
But many sports have too much subjective determination involved to remove human referees.
As an engineer, that seems to me to be a problem with the sports' design, not the refereeing. Replace these faulty sports with ones that have unambiguous design and repeatable decisions. Leave the umpires/referees to deal with things like breaking up fights and provide cue extenders.
My understanding is that lowering average blood sugar levels slightly is significantly beneficial to overall health.
No, that's not a given. You don't want to push people with an already low blood glucose level down to hypoglycemia levels.
Low blood sugar can be a problem not only for diabetics who take too much medicine, but also people with Addison's disease, non-diabetic alcoholics, and people who do endurance sports or very high levels of exercise.
The phone we had when I grew up did not have a dial, just a small crank where the dial would normally go. Cranking it produced a current that lit up a lamp at the operator's board, and she would ask where to connect us, and tell us how many arms and legs it would cost per minute. For long distance, she would also intercept every now and then during the call to say "four minutes" or similar. At my father's work was a small plaque above The phone saying "Express yourself in brevity".
You're kidding, but I am sure that someone at Samsung or Ericsson or wherever Apple steals ideas have already thought of a completely voice operated phone, as well as ones that requires wearing remote glasses or miracast to get a screen.
Is it really news that mobile phones will be wireless? I mean, there were probably wired mobile phones in the trenches during WWII, Korean war and Viet Nam war, but since the 90s at least, I think most mobile phones have been wireless.
What I miss the most are tactile buttons, allowing me to call without looking at the phone. And, of course, the times when people actually picked up the phone when there was a call, because calls were expensive and telemarketers and Indian scammers non-existent.
Thank you & parent for pointing out that the root cause of terminating Mr. Diallo's contract was not a machine, rather a human who did not renew the agreement in the system.
His contract wasn't terminated. It expired. That's a significant difference. Neither Mr. Diallo's former manager nor Mr. Diallo himself took any steps to ensure it was renewed.
The paper cup gets it's strength from the cover. If the cover is loose and you tighten your grip, which you normally do when you hit a bump, there is a high likely-hood that you will crush the cup, causing the contents to push out into your lap if it doesn't spill out from the bump.
If the bumps are that bad, a straw seems even more dangerous. At least a cup won't poke out your eye.
The lids aren't built to be lifted (in comparison to Starbucks lids).
That's a lid design problem then, which should be easily fixable by changing the lids and/or containers when going away from straws.
Where are you? I've never had a restaurant give me a problem for asking for "no ice, please."
And what kind of restaurant? Any establishment where older people go will be used to this request - if you still have your own teeth when old, they will invariably become more and more sensitive to cold as they wear down.
Some of us Slashdoters are old enough to remember a time before plastic straws. Yep, such a thing existed. Guess what we used, youngsters? That's right. Paper straws.
Actually, for things like soda, you did not get straws unless you asked for them. I know, drinking from the rim of a cup without sloshing soda and ice cubes all over yourself, what an amazing dexterity people had back then! On the flip side, you did get ketchup for your McD fries back in the old days, and now you don't unless you ask.
You just need to make yourself a less desirable target than everyone else.
This is indeed the case. Sure, while criminals can shoot dogs and plan ahead for how to get away after firing gunshots, and how not to be hunted down even though they have committed a greater crime than just burglary, why should they? They didn't become burglars because they were excellent planners and executors, no matter what Hollywood movies try to tell you. They need valuables, most likely quickly, and a good chance of getting away with it. So if there are dozens of possible targets, why would they want to pick one with a dog, increasing their risks of being caught, being hurt, or not getting loot? Never mind that most burglars are unarmed, and can't afford a gun and ammo. Being desperately broke is why most of them resort to breaking and entering in the first place.
Some locks are for that. Others are designed to force the bad guy to make noise or hang around looking suspicious long enough to get caught. No lock is absolutely PROOF against unauthorized access.
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The "space is just too big" argument doesn't work. First, there are no physics barriers to visiting other stars, purely engineering ones.
That may be true for our local neighbourhood, at present.
But there are physics barriers to visiting far away stars. The expansion of the universe causes stars that we can now see to be outside our future light cone, and we can never ever reach them or even signal them.
Sending someone to jail over a plastic bag (even repeatedly) sounds an awful lot like fascism to me.
You have a wrong understanding of what fascism is.
Fascism is a right-wing nationalism where corporations and government are in bed with each other. That's pretty much the opposite of what we see here.
Were you thinking of "police state", perhaps?
"Tab Warming" sounds like a great, well thought out feature! Yay!
Not necessarily.
Do you want the rendering of the current page to slow down because you flicked the mouse out of view, which happened to be over a tab?
Do you want the machine and network to slow to a crawl because you dragged the pointer across a great many tabs on the way to the one you wanted, and they all start rendering?
Do you want even higher memory/CPU use for a product that's already considered seriously bloated?
Scenario 4: There are a few hundred thousand people who will trigger the detection routines over and over again, because that's just how they look. So they get apprehended and arrested over and over again, and are unable to lead normal lives.
No, thanks, we do not need this.
This, of course, is fixable - add larger, more diverse data sets and eventually the AIs will be just as good (or bad) at their job regardless of vagaries of skin tone, face shape and the like.
No, this does not follow. If you skew the input, you also skew the output. Training the AI with more images from, than the actual ratio of, people with specific characteristics introduces a bias.
To get an unbiased result, you need to train it with a larger overall and unfiltered data set that is big enough to also get good results for the minorities.
The last Pentium III chip ever created was released in 2001.
This is false. The PIII 1400-S didn't come out until 2002, for example.
And a couple of mobile PIII ultra-low-voltage chips were not released until 2003. With a TDP of only 7W, and being faster at P4s clocked at the same speeds, they were truly nice for many applications where a HSF assembly was out of the question, and continued to be used for new products for several years.
If you read the study, they did address this.
No, they didn't. The study and control group were all diabetes patients, where the risk of hypoglycemia is from medication. That's a very different situation than someone who has low blood sugar values for other reasons and where lowering it would bring them below a threshold and cause problems.
My response was to point out that lowering the blood sugar is not always beneficial overall. And indeed, they don't propose that either.
Open Source has always been about creating code for the community, starting a project that solves a problem and leveraging developers from all around the world to make it as great as it can be. That's it.
"Always"? Having been around for a while, I beg to differ.
Open source was about seeing a problem or something fun, hacking some code for it, and to not be stuck with maintaining it, give the source away.
Anyone using the word "leveraging" when hey mean "using" isn't a hacker, but a bureaucratic cog in the machinery.
However, it's not quite that simple. I personally write software that I want to use myself, but I add features that users request or that I think users would want, even if I don't want them myself. This vastly increases the development effort, and software I could write quickly to meet my own needs ends up being hugely time consuming. It can become rather stressful
Then don't do it.
If it's important enough, someone else will pick up the ball, or design a new and better ball. If it isn't, it isn't; don't let your vanity get in the way.
But many sports have too much subjective determination involved to remove human referees.
As an engineer, that seems to me to be a problem with the sports' design, not the refereeing. Replace these faulty sports with ones that have unambiguous design and repeatable decisions.
Leave the umpires/referees to deal with things like breaking up fights and provide cue extenders.
My understanding is that lowering average blood sugar levels slightly is significantly beneficial to overall health.
No, that's not a given. You don't want to push people with an already low blood glucose level down to hypoglycemia levels.
Low blood sugar can be a problem not only for diabetics who take too much medicine, but also people with Addison's disease, non-diabetic alcoholics, and people who do endurance sports or very high levels of exercise.
The phone we had when I grew up did not have a dial, just a small crank where the dial would normally go. Cranking it produced a current that lit up a lamp at the operator's board, and she would ask where to connect us, and tell us how many arms and legs it would cost per minute. For long distance, she would also intercept every now and then during the call to say "four minutes" or similar.
At my father's work was a small plaque above The phone saying "Express yourself in brevity".
A more civilized phone for a more civilized time.
You're kidding, but I am sure that someone at Samsung or Ericsson or wherever Apple steals ideas have already thought of a completely voice operated phone, as well as ones that requires wearing remote glasses or miracast to get a screen.
The only Apple product I own is the White Album.
Is it really news that mobile phones will be wireless?
I mean, there were probably wired mobile phones in the trenches during WWII, Korean war and Viet Nam war, but since the 90s at least, I think most mobile phones have been wireless.
What I miss the most are tactile buttons, allowing me to call without looking at the phone. And, of course, the times when people actually picked up the phone when there was a call, because calls were expensive and telemarketers and Indian scammers non-existent.
Yeah, truly. All other places use ground beef, which is basically pre-chewed.
And what makes it a hamburger.
This is as much a hamburger as a salisbury "steak" is a steak.
Thank you & parent for pointing out that the root cause of terminating Mr. Diallo's contract was not a machine, rather a human who did not renew the agreement in the system.
His contract wasn't terminated. It expired. That's a significant difference.
Neither Mr. Diallo's former manager nor Mr. Diallo himself took any steps to ensure it was renewed.
The paper cup gets it's strength from the cover. If the cover is loose and you tighten your grip, which you normally do when you hit a bump, there is a high likely-hood that you will crush the cup, causing the contents to push out into your lap if it doesn't spill out from the bump.
If the bumps are that bad, a straw seems even more dangerous. At least a cup won't poke out your eye.
The lids aren't built to be lifted (in comparison to Starbucks lids).
That's a lid design problem then, which should be easily fixable by changing the lids and/or containers when going away from straws.
I think you misunderstood. You don't take the lid off, you lift it to take a sip when there's a clear stretch, and put the lid back on.
If potholes are bad, the last thing you want to do is using cup holders. It's safer holding it in hands working as hydraulic shock absorbers.
Where are you? I've never had a restaurant give me a problem for asking for "no ice, please."
And what kind of restaurant? Any establishment where older people go will be used to this request - if you still have your own teeth when old, they will invariably become more and more sensitive to cold as they wear down.
Why do I need to be paying attention to the road when I'm in the passenger seat? Passengers get thrirsty, too.
Unlike the driver, passengers have two free hands.
Lifting the lid to take a sip should not be a problem.
Those don't fit the cup holder.
My European car doesn't have a functional cup holder, but a diagonal bottle holder in the door.
Some of us Slashdoters are old enough to remember a time before plastic straws. Yep, such a thing existed. Guess what we used, youngsters? That's right. Paper straws.
Actually, for things like soda, you did not get straws unless you asked for them. I know, drinking from the rim of a cup without sloshing soda and ice cubes all over yourself, what an amazing dexterity people had back then!
On the flip side, you did get ketchup for your McD fries back in the old days, and now you don't unless you ask.
You just need to make yourself a less desirable target than everyone else.
This is indeed the case. Sure, while criminals can shoot dogs and plan ahead for how to get away after firing gunshots, and how not to be hunted down even though they have committed a greater crime than just burglary, why should they? They didn't become burglars because they were excellent planners and executors, no matter what Hollywood movies try to tell you. They need valuables, most likely quickly, and a good chance of getting away with it. So if there are dozens of possible targets, why would they want to pick one with a dog, increasing their risks of being caught, being hurt, or not getting loot?
Never mind that most burglars are unarmed, and can't afford a gun and ammo. Being desperately broke is why most of them resort to breaking and entering in the first place.
Some locks are for that. Others are designed to force the bad guy to make noise or hang around looking suspicious long enough to get caught. No lock is absolutely PROOF against unauthorized access.
Sarin/polonium filled glass lock? :)