Anyone who has looked into the sad history of Intel side projects, especially those trying to get a foothold into the mobile / low power world had that "inside info".
They are just going to make you take one of their tests. (Which is illegal, but what ever.)
I'm with you on most of this. I'm only going to take issue with this particular part of your post. Many things that are currently legal were once illegal. Things that we would reject outright can slowly become legal in small steps over longer periods of time. That's the concern being raised.
There's not much to be done about it, of course. We're a reactionary society so there's little chance any real attention will be given to a blossoming issue until it finally blows up and actually causes a problem. It just rubs me wrong when someone dismisses what could clearly become a valid concern if we follow the logical progression of events based solely on the fact that it's not *currently* a concern.
That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
Not following. I didn't suggest annoyance at the presence of round things loosely called "wheels". I was referring to "moving about on" wheels as the primary means of propulsion. We can't make big things without small things or big advances without small advances. But to still be rolling around on rubber versions of the original stone things from a few thousand years ago does suggest some stagnation in our mindset.
It's a clumsy first step, but a step in the right direction nonetheless. The fact that we're still moving about on the freaking wheel some several thousands of years after its "invention" makes me shake my head a little.
Makes me wonder, without all that extra luggage how much further could they have became.
I firmly believe that this "extra luggage" often contributes to the greatness that unfolds. For someone that has a true passion and interest, these hurdles often seem to me like motivating factors pushing that person to achieve more than they might have if those same achievements had just been "expected" of them.
I think most would agree that you're more likely to pour your heart and soul into a achieving a goal if there's a little resistance along the way...someone else saying you can't do that or simply the fact that you're the first to do it...just *something* that can sweeten the pot a little or act as that little grain of irritating sand needed to make that really big, shiny pearl at the end.
When a site falls behind on updating the copyright date in the footer, it's a sign things are over. When it's been nearly FIVE YEARS since they've updated the copyright date, it's LONG, LONG over. Definitely time to pull the plug on that thing.
Even if only cosmetic, the issue is out of character for Apple, which has rooted its reputation in manufacturing devices with best-in-industry fit and finish.
This quote from the article sums up my opinion pretty well.
I've paid my Apple premium price before because I specifically didn't want to deal with questionable quality in any aspect. I wanted something that I knew someone had spent an exorbitant amount of time testing and re-working to make it as well as they could make it...and I was willing to pay the exorbitant price for that piece of mind so I could just get up and running quickly and go about my business. I haven't been disappointed yet on that front.
But THIS...this smacks of cheap Chinese ebay crap and to try to brush it off as not affecting operation...yeah, that's not gonna fly. Aluminum case warpage today, cheap SSD selection tomorrow. A company's response to a legitimate issue is even more indicative of their future products than the fact that they had an issue was to begin with.
I can accept an occasional slippage on that front, but to try to sweep it under the floor when you know full well your company's reputation and customer base is built around avoidance of that very type of thing raises some questions. They'll rethink this position. I hope.
But does it really matter? Even if they were real images, they'll have been made under ideal lighting conditions and hand picked from hundreds if not thousands of images so don't reflect real-world conditions.
This. This hits the nail on the head and ends all further discussion. It *really* doesn't matter here. Nit-picking over disclaimers when you already know perfectly well that they're going to produce better looking pictures than you'll ever be able to regardless of whether they actually use the phone camera or not is kinda silly.
Keep it simple as possible... object in path... hit the brakes... don't calculate the life values of the occupants vs road hazards.
It is not that simple. Nothing is ever that simple. And for Pete's sake, nothing involving pedestrians and AI logic and fictitious scenarios will ever be that simple.
Take, for example, the fact that even a basic "AI" system here could detect that a semi truck (or some large, presumably heavy vehicle) was right behind the lead car making the decision to slam on the brakes to save said object in path. The simplest of logic here could determine that the semi isn't going to stop in time no matter what the lead car does. So now a decision has to be made...why slam on the brakes to try to save the object in your path when you know full well that it's not going to be saved anyway? Slamming on the brakes will actually make the entire situation much worse because now not only is the object going to get hit anyway, the semi and the occupants of the lead car are going to all get injured as well.
Or are you really suggesting that the system ignore information it could easy assimilate and process to make better decisions? Because that's basically the whole purpose of adding "AI" to these systems to begin with and to suggest that we intentionally cripple that development to "keep it simple" is blatantly ignorant.
I have the same issue with the "AI" systems we currently share the road with (yes, humans) that immediately default to slamming on their brakes any time something doesn't "look right" to them. Unsure? Slam on brakes and see what's going on, then realize it was just a butterfly after all and continue on your merry way.
NO! Pay attention! Analyze situations in real time, understand cause and effect, follow simple logical derivations and you won't be causing domino-effect train wrecks on the highway. I want these new AI systems to do much the same and hopefully we can finally replace all these woefully inadequate ones we have on the street today...
The summary hit all the classic jokes, A+ for once:
Agreed. And I'll add my personal favorite from the article to the list.
Tickets aren’t on sale yet, so there’s no word as to whether they are selling round trip tickets or learning from experience and starting with one-way fares.
I procrastinate. A lot. And, yeah, part of it is simply the adrenaline rush from knowing something HAS to be done NOW or else. It helps to make a mundane task interesting.
But there's a very real probabilistic side to this for me as well. There is a non-trivial portion of my tasks that will simply go away if I wait long enough. Requirements or situations will change and suddenly that big "thing" that needed to be done by next week that I could have started 4 weeks ago just isn't relevant any more. If we want to take a camping trip, for example, and I'm supposed to make a big menu and buy a bunch of food...I'm going to wait until the last possible minute to start that because 20-30% of the time, that trip ends up getting canceled due to "other stuff" like weather or changes in other scheduled items...whatever.
I'm buying back TIME by procrastinating. Not only the time I would have wasted working early on that "thing" nobody needs any more but also in the time it takes me to do that "thing". If I have a looming deadline that borders on being impossible to meet, then I have to work REALLY hard and fast on it to get it done. If I start 4 weeks early, I'm almost certainly going to be working at a slower pace and, as such, I'll limit just how many of those "things" I can even get done over time.
Wait, what!? Not only does the Vint seem to think looking up license plate registration information is limited to "those in power", but it seems like nearly everyone else in this thread does too. People are just taking statements as truths...this is how confusing myths get started.
You can most certainly get license plate registration information yourself, at least in every state I've been in. In Maryland, for example, I can get the owner's name, the registration information and the VIN number of the vehicle in any one of several different ways.
Another, although more obvious but still underrated, upside is the fact that USB-C ports are not keyed. You no longer have to fiddle around with orientation trying to shove a cable into a port the wrong way or spend precious seconds examining the cable end and port first before inserting it. Like you said, this is one of those "eh" things until you've actually lived with it for a while and then are forced to work again with those damn micro-USB cables for some reason...then you remember what a tiny little annoyance that was that added up over time to a bigger one.
Shut down the full station just to fix one bad pump?
Even if you don't feel that was appropriate in this particular situation (although as others have posted already, it seems pretty reasonable even here), the option to manually shut off everything has to be available regardless and I'm pretty sure it is by requirement for instances where a single pump catches fire!
And let's take this hack a step further into terrorist land where you could easily picture a scenario where someone might shutdown electronic control over the pumps and start setting everything ablaze on purpose...surely there's a need for a manual shut off here.
There's a big red button somewhere at this station, as all other stations I'm sure. If nothing else, a full main breaker that controls everything.
What does it have to do with net neutrality. If anything, it is a case of product tying, not a net neutrality violation.
Agreed. As I admitted, I only half-heard the commercial in passing and *ass*umed they were exclaiming how cool it was that their internet service allowed access to Netflix. Clearly a HUGE, unfounded leap on my part.
If they are, in fact, just offering a bundled Netflix account as a previous poster pointed out, then my response was unwarranted. For now. I strongly suspect we'll see this develop further, though, as I recall Netflix scrambling a while back because ISPs were throttling their servers.
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Anyone who has looked into the sad history of Intel side projects, especially those trying to get a foothold into the mobile / low power world had that "inside info".
Quoting for truth.
It already has. Back in 2006 with some AOLServer code working around an Oracle driver bug of some sort.
http://taint.org/2006/07/20/17...
They are just going to make you take one of their tests. (Which is illegal, but what ever.)
I'm with you on most of this. I'm only going to take issue with this particular part of your post. Many things that are currently legal were once illegal. Things that we would reject outright can slowly become legal in small steps over longer periods of time. That's the concern being raised.
There's not much to be done about it, of course. We're a reactionary society so there's little chance any real attention will be given to a blossoming issue until it finally blows up and actually causes a problem. It just rubs me wrong when someone dismisses what could clearly become a valid concern if we follow the logical progression of events based solely on the fact that it's not *currently* a concern.
That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
Not following. I didn't suggest annoyance at the presence of round things loosely called "wheels". I was referring to "moving about on" wheels as the primary means of propulsion. We can't make big things without small things or big advances without small advances. But to still be rolling around on rubber versions of the original stone things from a few thousand years ago does suggest some stagnation in our mindset.
It's a clumsy first step, but a step in the right direction nonetheless. The fact that we're still moving about on the freaking wheel some several thousands of years after its "invention" makes me shake my head a little.
I can't wait to see the industry that pops up having to protect us from THE SHIT WE OWN!
Electrical tape already exists.
Yeah, totes. Sounds exactly the same.
Makes me wonder, without all that extra luggage how much further could they have became.
I firmly believe that this "extra luggage" often contributes to the greatness that unfolds. For someone that has a true passion and interest, these hurdles often seem to me like motivating factors pushing that person to achieve more than they might have if those same achievements had just been "expected" of them.
I think most would agree that you're more likely to pour your heart and soul into a achieving a goal if there's a little resistance along the way...someone else saying you can't do that or simply the fact that you're the first to do it...just *something* that can sweeten the pot a little or act as that little grain of irritating sand needed to make that really big, shiny pearl at the end.
When a site falls behind on updating the copyright date in the footer, it's a sign things are over. When it's been nearly FIVE YEARS since they've updated the copyright date, it's LONG, LONG over. Definitely time to pull the plug on that thing.
Woosh.
Even if only cosmetic, the issue is out of character for Apple, which has rooted its reputation in manufacturing devices with best-in-industry fit and finish.
This quote from the article sums up my opinion pretty well.
I've paid my Apple premium price before because I specifically didn't want to deal with questionable quality in any aspect. I wanted something that I knew someone had spent an exorbitant amount of time testing and re-working to make it as well as they could make it...and I was willing to pay the exorbitant price for that piece of mind so I could just get up and running quickly and go about my business. I haven't been disappointed yet on that front.
But THIS...this smacks of cheap Chinese ebay crap and to try to brush it off as not affecting operation...yeah, that's not gonna fly. Aluminum case warpage today, cheap SSD selection tomorrow. A company's response to a legitimate issue is even more indicative of their future products than the fact that they had an issue was to begin with.
I can accept an occasional slippage on that front, but to try to sweep it under the floor when you know full well your company's reputation and customer base is built around avoidance of that very type of thing raises some questions. They'll rethink this position. I hope.
But does it really matter? Even if they were real images, they'll have been made under ideal lighting conditions and hand picked from hundreds if not thousands of images so don't reflect real-world conditions.
This. This hits the nail on the head and ends all further discussion. It *really* doesn't matter here. Nit-picking over disclaimers when you already know perfectly well that they're going to produce better looking pictures than you'll ever be able to regardless of whether they actually use the phone camera or not is kinda silly.
My son had a 2005 with no issue either. The GPS is indeed junk.
Logic isn't your thing, is it?
Greetings from the rest of the world.
Best intro ever. And a nice follow-thru to boot. This post wins.
Keep it simple as possible... object in path... hit the brakes... don't calculate the life values of the occupants vs road hazards.
It is not that simple. Nothing is ever that simple. And for Pete's sake, nothing involving pedestrians and AI logic and fictitious scenarios will ever be that simple.
Take, for example, the fact that even a basic "AI" system here could detect that a semi truck (or some large, presumably heavy vehicle) was right behind the lead car making the decision to slam on the brakes to save said object in path. The simplest of logic here could determine that the semi isn't going to stop in time no matter what the lead car does. So now a decision has to be made...why slam on the brakes to try to save the object in your path when you know full well that it's not going to be saved anyway? Slamming on the brakes will actually make the entire situation much worse because now not only is the object going to get hit anyway, the semi and the occupants of the lead car are going to all get injured as well.
Or are you really suggesting that the system ignore information it could easy assimilate and process to make better decisions? Because that's basically the whole purpose of adding "AI" to these systems to begin with and to suggest that we intentionally cripple that development to "keep it simple" is blatantly ignorant.
I have the same issue with the "AI" systems we currently share the road with (yes, humans) that immediately default to slamming on their brakes any time something doesn't "look right" to them. Unsure? Slam on brakes and see what's going on, then realize it was just a butterfly after all and continue on your merry way.
NO! Pay attention! Analyze situations in real time, understand cause and effect, follow simple logical derivations and you won't be causing domino-effect train wrecks on the highway. I want these new AI systems to do much the same and hopefully we can finally replace all these woefully inadequate ones we have on the street today...
The summary hit all the classic jokes, A+ for once:
Agreed. And I'll add my personal favorite from the article to the list.
Tickets aren’t on sale yet, so there’s no word as to whether they are selling round trip tickets or learning from experience and starting with one-way fares.
Woosh
The Full Photoshop CC ...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
not every feature will be available in the mobile version
Isn't Java practically open source by design? What has kept the unwashed masses from decompiling already?
Will need to research which carriers are "not participating" and consider their plans for my future contract...
I procrastinate. A lot. And, yeah, part of it is simply the adrenaline rush from knowing something HAS to be done NOW or else. It helps to make a mundane task interesting.
But there's a very real probabilistic side to this for me as well. There is a non-trivial portion of my tasks that will simply go away if I wait long enough. Requirements or situations will change and suddenly that big "thing" that needed to be done by next week that I could have started 4 weeks ago just isn't relevant any more. If we want to take a camping trip, for example, and I'm supposed to make a big menu and buy a bunch of food...I'm going to wait until the last possible minute to start that because 20-30% of the time, that trip ends up getting canceled due to "other stuff" like weather or changes in other scheduled items...whatever.
I'm buying back TIME by procrastinating. Not only the time I would have wasted working early on that "thing" nobody needs any more but also in the time it takes me to do that "thing". If I have a looming deadline that borders on being impossible to meet, then I have to work REALLY hard and fast on it to get it done. If I start 4 weeks early, I'm almost certainly going to be working at a slower pace and, as such, I'll limit just how many of those "things" I can even get done over time.
Wait, what!? Not only does the Vint seem to think looking up license plate registration information is limited to "those in power", but it seems like nearly everyone else in this thread does too. People are just taking statements as truths...this is how confusing myths get started.
You can most certainly get license plate registration information yourself, at least in every state I've been in. In Maryland, for example, I can get the owner's name, the registration information and the VIN number of the vehicle in any one of several different ways.
One non-obvious upside of USB-C
Another, although more obvious but still underrated, upside is the fact that USB-C ports are not keyed. You no longer have to fiddle around with orientation trying to shove a cable into a port the wrong way or spend precious seconds examining the cable end and port first before inserting it. Like you said, this is one of those "eh" things until you've actually lived with it for a while and then are forced to work again with those damn micro-USB cables for some reason...then you remember what a tiny little annoyance that was that added up over time to a bigger one.
Shut down the full station just to fix one bad pump?
Even if you don't feel that was appropriate in this particular situation (although as others have posted already, it seems pretty reasonable even here), the option to manually shut off everything has to be available regardless and I'm pretty sure it is by requirement for instances where a single pump catches fire!
And let's take this hack a step further into terrorist land where you could easily picture a scenario where someone might shutdown electronic control over the pumps and start setting everything ablaze on purpose...surely there's a need for a manual shut off here.
There's a big red button somewhere at this station, as all other stations I'm sure. If nothing else, a full main breaker that controls everything.
What does it have to do with net neutrality. If anything, it is a case of product tying, not a net neutrality violation.
Agreed. As I admitted, I only half-heard the commercial in passing and *ass*umed they were exclaiming how cool it was that their internet service allowed access to Netflix. Clearly a HUGE, unfounded leap on my part.
If they are, in fact, just offering a bundled Netflix account as a previous poster pointed out, then my response was unwarranted. For now. I strongly suspect we'll see this develop further, though, as I recall Netflix scrambling a while back because ISPs were throttling their servers.