If nothing else comes from it, at least there will be a snapshot of the current level of biodiversity in the lake. Which could be useful for future planning if there is ever a algae bloom or other problem that arises. They could look back at the test and track where the problem first showed up.
How accurate is taking DNA samples from water though? Can you really take a sample of water and determine all the creatures that live there? I'm skeptical on how accurate this is. I certainly don't believe there is an actual Loch Ness Monster, but if there were, and their numbers were very low, how likely would you be to catch their DNA in a sample, in 10, in 100.
Maybe the science for this is better than I suspect (I'm no expert) but this strikes me of fishing for Tuna in a back-yard pond.
The biggest problem is that such a sampling expedition is going to find a lot of unknown DNA and a lot of ambiguous DNA, which is all you need to keep the legend rolling. You can't explain 100% of the DNA you find in a local puddle, much less a substantial body of water like this with relatively low through current.
I, don't disagree with you, but playing the Donald's advocate:
What if there were some huge undocumented caves somewhere off the depths of the lake that contained something essential for the Pleiosaurs to survive. They don't normally leave the caves, but occasionally one does... they get sick, rise to the surface and get spotted by tourists before dying and sink to the bottom where they are eaten by fish and other organisms.
Yeah, nonsense I know... but theoretically possible
What if God just pops up to play with giant plesiosaur puppets periodically? I mean, seems unlikely, but theoretically possible.
I feel like he's conflating Ubuntu as the dominant guest with being able to make gains as host. I don't think Google runs their data centers using Canonical tech, nor is it likely IBM or Microsoft do, either.
"1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
Current robots don't understand what a human being is, injury, inaction, or harm.
"2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
Current robots do not understand what an order is, what a human being is, or what conflict is.
"3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
Current robots do not understand protection, existence, or conflict.
Current robots LITERALLY cannot apply Asimov's three laws. We simply don't have the tools to even begin to reason about how to teach them to reason about these laws, and there is no reason to believe we'll have those tools any time soon.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Sure, if they have to spend 10 years on the project when they could otherwise spend less, maybe it's relevant, but... it's not like with CRISPR they'd have solved CO2 tomorrow. If they could LITERALLY flip a switch and have the end result tomorrow, they'd then have to test that it works, and then start figuring out how to grow the stuff, and how to harvest in a way which doesn't screw up the CO2 capture, etc, so to even get up to speed is going to take like 10 years, and then if it works wonderfully, they'll need another few decades to reach critical mass.
I mean, yeah, too bad that the researcher doesn't have the kind of attention necessary to carry a long-term project, but that's hardly the fault of environmentalists or CRISPR or whatever. Seriously, quit whining about the magic bullet and do the work. It's not like the ten years will be spent solely on breeding. You'll also be learning a lot about working with the plants, in fact well before you've bred the hypothesized super-CO2-binding plant, you might find completely valid reasons why it was a bad idea from the get-go.
"If you're struggling to do business" - yes, this will become easier by limiting yourself to a market of 300 households! Oh, wait, no, they're thinking they're going to sell to the world, somehow? Do they have some sort of robotic manufacturing? Is there some sort of thing which enables them to not operate differently from the various other tax havens? No?
"just live under your country's administration" - yes, this will become easier by removing yourself to a location which is entirely dependent on the outside world for basics such as food and water! Oh, wait, no, they have compact fusion plants? New solar desalinization technology? Food replicators? No?
"proof of concept to plan for islands to house climate refugees" - yes, they can come with their various boats (one for shorter trips and one for long-distance travels, another for entertaining) and use their iPhones to connect to the free satellite Internet and day-trade commodities using crypto coins... wait, did anyone tell these people that climate refugees are generally quite poor in Western terms? Like maybe they don't even have a feature phone, and their advanced economic knowledge is maybe about getting a loan to purchase some chickens to provide eggs to their neighborhood? Do they have some sort of OLPC-type system to enable technological take-up in a way Western economies haven't?
"This means there is stability, outside of fluctuating geopolitical influences, trade issues and currency fluctuations" - because cryptocurrencies and the Internet are SUPER DUPER DOUBLE-PLUS STABLE COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS. These aren't so much enabling technologies as disabling technologies.
"people will be able to just take their house and float away to another island" - or perhaps the island they are connected to will just disconnect them and cast them loose to sink or swim, either because their household isn't contributing enough rent, or just because they don't look "right". That sounds fun! It certainly won't be abused to force people to labor in the households of the islands super-rich!
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In my life I have gone from growing up on a rural farm to early retirement in silicon valley, and I frequently worry whether I've lost my connection to how regular humans operate. It's nice to see that there's a group of people out there striving to make me feel like I'm still quite grounded! It's like how kids think that milk comes from the grocery store, except the adult version where they have no comprehension about how anything they rely on to live works.
"Trusty" is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, codename "Trusty Tahr", released in 2014-04 and supported until 2019-04. "LTS" is long-term supported versions of Ubuntu, which receive security updates for five years. "Chromium" is a web browser published by Google with all the proprietary parts stripped out. "snap" is a packaged application distributed by the Ubuntu store, which runs in a container to isolate its dependencies.
Translation: If you're still running Ubuntu 14.04, you can get the latest Google web browser as a self-contained package.
Whoa. Your translation _is_ super long compared to the original text!
If someone went back in time and changed history, you wouldn't even know it. It's pretty much an impossible to falsify argument. So yeah, it could be true, but then Big Foot could be real along with werewolves, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Or how about those sightings of pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea? I mean FFS, if you're going to seriously entertain the time traveler hypothesis, knowing it probably can't be falsified, you can't dismiss things like cryptids either.
So you're saying that Nessie was a time traveler? OMG! It explains so much!
Assuming the failure rate isn't horrendous, and then instead of talking to some front-line person with a service incentive to quickly make a reservation or appointment, I'll be talking to an overwhelmed backend support person trying to fix a screw-up. So 19 times out of 20, you'll save 90 seconds, and the other time you'll lose 45 minutes.
The video appears to show macro shots of a drone-sized mock-up (I guess to make it look full-sized?), plus a bunch of renders. You can't just show footage from Avatar, then make a bunch of assertions about what your pricing for that is going to be! Maybe they hired the flat-earth steam-rocket guy onto their marketing team?
But I liked the render of flying 2,000 feet above traffic... it's not like that traffic surrounding the launch facility will be at all relevant to getting to the launch facility...
AFAICT, top grads from top schools move to Silicon Valley. Period. We only have a couple of the top schools in the bay area so that implies that the rest of them are coming from top schools outside the bay area. We have top people from Waterloo, Georgia Tech, IIT, basically everywhere. It's not even complicated, the top jobs are mostly here, most people don't want to play second fiddle in a securities trading shop or insurance company when they can be top dogs in a software firm. Silicon Valley's position as the dominant region is gradually changing over time, but the jobs aren't dispersing evenly into the world, there are just other concentrated locales you can also consider these days like Seattle.
While Google is putting support behind RCS, it's not a Google thing, it's an industry-standard evolution of SMS. Google really should do better and offer end-to-end encryption, but that would only work in their walled garden, and they would still have to interoperate with everyone outside of that garden, who they have no control over.
My first real employment gave 10 days, rising to 15 days after a few years of tenure, which was the same package my wife had for her first few fulltime jobs. Then I got a job at a place which STARTED at 15 days, and built to 25 days, and I realized - 10 days of vacation isn't some blessing for top performers, it's a sign of how broken American employment is. With only 10 days it becomes really challenging to cover your various life events (sibling's graduation, niece's wedding, etc) and also take any sort of worthwhile vacation. So you end up spending it in dribs and drabs, maybe with a one-week block somewhere, or you don't take minimal vacation for a few years to bank time for something longer in the future.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people should just be slackers. But 10 days per year is unhealthy.
[And I realize that this is #firstworldproblem, given the many people who completely lack control over their working time and have effectively zero vacation days, which is also completely broken of us as a society.]
Seriously, this is considered worth posting? Don't get me wrong, I live out here, I've watched things progress, but it's not like reality had a hole where tech fits. Instead, for the most part, tech makes shit up and some of it changes reality. But the vast majority of it is just insanely ill-thought-out and sinks back into the swamp. That's not some weird new state we need to recover from, that's been the status quo in tech for decades. And the tech sector has grown tons in spite of that, with commentators grousing all the way.
[The above should not be taken as a blessing on the status quo. I've been one of those grousers since the early 90's. But I am also keenly aware that for all that I feel like how things work is embarrassing and we need to do better, I still have no fucking clue how to fix it.]
You don't make a viral hit by saying "I want to make a viral hit, how do I do it?" You get started, release, provide details, show your enthusiasm by obviously putting more time into it, answer stupid questions over and over until someone starts helping, and you just keep it up. That would take all of 30 minutes to get rolling on Github.
You provided ZERO details in your ask-slashdot! Literally none! So all signs currently point to you perhaps being unwilling to give up enough control to benefit from other people helping.
If you're asking how to convince someone else to write the system for your language, haha, good luck, that's not how it works, people who have those skills don't need you as a source of ideas. Linus Torvalds succeeded by doing MASSIVE amounts of work himself, and others starts helping to a lesser extent. Also, he didn't wait for anyone else to start helping, he just started doing without concern for whether it was viable or whether anyone else would contribute. In other words, just do it, don't wait around for someone else to carry your water.
Or maybe it does occur to them and they don't care. Or want government to go after troublemakers like protesters... The job of law enforcement often attracts a certain mentality.
The country is full of people who think that we can trust law enforcement with this kind of thing - often the self-same people who think that we cannot trust the government IN ANY OTHER AREA OF LIFE.
The paper describes a method of adding jank to applications which will cause users to frown and furrow their eyebrows, which in turn can be monitored by a high-def camera furtively installed on their monitor to communicate between 100 and 1337 bits per minute to attackers.
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Honestly, who approves this research? I mean, yes, it's possible, but if your computer is "air-gapped" and the attackers have the ability to breath your air, you are already screwed.
Linked articles don't really have anything on things which might co-exist with staying up late. For instance, in mortality cases, did staying up late cause health issues leading to death, or was there a health issue which made it hard to sleep which also eventually caused death? Does stress affect sleep? Does staying up late correlate with lack of exercise? The list could go on and on. Without a mechanism, it's silly/stupid to suggest modifying things like the job market to fix the problem. It's comparable to saying "Cholesterol is bad, you should be really careful about eating eggs."
Back in those days, you didn't have a computer in your pocket. I had no computer access until school started in fall (and then it was really limited). So I wrote a threaded-code FORTH kernel in 6502 assembly on lined paper. Then I debugged it and rewrote it a couple times in between milking cows and attending band camp. By the time I had semi-routine computer access again, I had lots of other stuff I wanted to get to, so I never actually saw it in action.
IOW, big deal, a computer scientist makes do with the tools available to build solutions. Even today, decades later, when I want to _really_ get a problem solved rather than just dicking around with it pretending to work, I take some legal pads to a quiet spot with no computer access and get shit done. When you go interview for a job, they also are probably not going to give you an IDE. When you get a job and have a project proposal, they aren't going to sit and watch you screw around in an IDE for a few hours until you start making sense.
This article: http://ideas.4brad.com/it-cert... suggests that the LIDAR was turned off, and has some technical explanation around why things might have failed.
Yes, this was hard to see using passive techniques with visible light (ie, your eyes), but WTF, the person wasn't sprinting or jumping off the curb, something active like LIDAR should have had no troubles spotting this.
Graphic novels and comic books are a medium through which to tell a story. There are really good ones that take a long time to work through and keep your attention well. There are horrid ones where you find yourself flipping back and forth between adjacent pages because you feel like there was a printing error and they forgot five or six pages. Starting out is like starting out with fiction, or movies, it's reasonable to just pick a couple well-reviewed pieces which are materially different from each other so you can get a sense for what works for you, then narrow things down going forward.
Thank goodness we've swung into action and comprehensively resolved this problem! See, Trump was entirely right that foreign aid and a functioning State Department are vestigial in this day and age.
You are attaching too much importance to the iPhone CPUs (and Android) market. It is doubtful the margins are high on those, especially since Apple has multiple manufacturers. That is like saying Apple missed out on making Android phones because there were so many of them out there. You don't want to enter a cutthroat low-margin market.
Also, what if Apple had gone with Intel for their CPU, and then failed because Intel's CPUs sucked batteries dry? Or because having the same CPU in desktops, laptops, and mobile devices lead Apple to the obvious path of cross-platform compatibility, and that sucked batteries dry? Or if Apple wanted to gradually take over more of the system to customize it to better serve their needs, and Intel said "F. U."? I think Apple was probably lucky on Intel turning them down.
Why do we require one image to signify humanity on wikipedia? The pages for cats, dogs, birds, bats, spiders and fruit all feature composite images of the many species represented in one image. Why would the page for humans be any different? Indeed, the page goes on to show many examples of humans.
Am I missing something here?
Having a single example of every fricking thing, and then arguing over it endlessly, demonstrates our basic tendency towards absolutist/fundamentalist positions. We want to have the "right" example, with the rest explained away as exceptions, rather than a bunch of examples which together cover the space.
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If nothing else comes from it, at least there will be a snapshot of the current level of biodiversity in the lake. Which could be useful for future planning if there is ever a algae bloom or other problem that arises. They could look back at the test and track where the problem first showed up.
How accurate is taking DNA samples from water though? Can you really take a sample of water and determine all the creatures that live there? I'm skeptical on how accurate this is. I certainly don't believe there is an actual Loch Ness Monster, but if there were, and their numbers were very low, how likely would you be to catch their DNA in a sample, in 10, in 100.
Maybe the science for this is better than I suspect (I'm no expert) but this strikes me of fishing for Tuna in a back-yard pond.
The biggest problem is that such a sampling expedition is going to find a lot of unknown DNA and a lot of ambiguous DNA, which is all you need to keep the legend rolling. You can't explain 100% of the DNA you find in a local puddle, much less a substantial body of water like this with relatively low through current.
I, don't disagree with you, but playing the Donald's advocate:
What if there were some huge undocumented caves somewhere off the depths of the lake that contained something essential for the Pleiosaurs to survive. They don't normally leave the caves, but occasionally one does... they get sick, rise to the surface and get spotted by tourists before dying and sink to the bottom where they are eaten by fish and other organisms.
Yeah, nonsense I know... but theoretically possible
What if God just pops up to play with giant plesiosaur puppets periodically? I mean, seems unlikely, but theoretically possible.
I feel like he's conflating Ubuntu as the dominant guest with being able to make gains as host. I don't think Google runs their data centers using Canonical tech, nor is it likely IBM or Microsoft do, either.
"1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
Current robots don't understand what a human being is, injury, inaction, or harm.
"2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
Current robots do not understand what an order is, what a human being is, or what conflict is.
"3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
Current robots do not understand protection, existence, or conflict.
Current robots LITERALLY cannot apply Asimov's three laws. We simply don't have the tools to even begin to reason about how to teach them to reason about these laws, and there is no reason to believe we'll have those tools any time soon.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Sure, if they have to spend 10 years on the project when they could otherwise spend less, maybe it's relevant, but ... it's not like with CRISPR they'd have solved CO2 tomorrow. If they could LITERALLY flip a switch and have the end result tomorrow, they'd then have to test that it works, and then start figuring out how to grow the stuff, and how to harvest in a way which doesn't screw up the CO2 capture, etc, so to even get up to speed is going to take like 10 years, and then if it works wonderfully, they'll need another few decades to reach critical mass.
I mean, yeah, too bad that the researcher doesn't have the kind of attention necessary to carry a long-term project, but that's hardly the fault of environmentalists or CRISPR or whatever. Seriously, quit whining about the magic bullet and do the work. It's not like the ten years will be spent solely on breeding. You'll also be learning a lot about working with the plants, in fact well before you've bred the hypothesized super-CO2-binding plant, you might find completely valid reasons why it was a bad idea from the get-go.
"If you're struggling to do business" - yes, this will become easier by limiting yourself to a market of 300 households! Oh, wait, no, they're thinking they're going to sell to the world, somehow? Do they have some sort of robotic manufacturing? Is there some sort of thing which enables them to not operate differently from the various other tax havens? No?
"just live under your country's administration" - yes, this will become easier by removing yourself to a location which is entirely dependent on the outside world for basics such as food and water! Oh, wait, no, they have compact fusion plants? New solar desalinization technology? Food replicators? No?
"proof of concept to plan for islands to house climate refugees" - yes, they can come with their various boats (one for shorter trips and one for long-distance travels, another for entertaining) and use their iPhones to connect to the free satellite Internet and day-trade commodities using crypto coins ... wait, did anyone tell these people that climate refugees are generally quite poor in Western terms? Like maybe they don't even have a feature phone, and their advanced economic knowledge is maybe about getting a loan to purchase some chickens to provide eggs to their neighborhood? Do they have some sort of OLPC-type system to enable technological take-up in a way Western economies haven't?
"This means there is stability, outside of fluctuating geopolitical influences, trade issues and currency fluctuations" - because cryptocurrencies and the Internet are SUPER DUPER DOUBLE-PLUS STABLE COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS. These aren't so much enabling technologies as disabling technologies.
"people will be able to just take their house and float away to another island" - or perhaps the island they are connected to will just disconnect them and cast them loose to sink or swim, either because their household isn't contributing enough rent, or just because they don't look "right". That sounds fun! It certainly won't be abused to force people to labor in the households of the islands super-rich!
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In my life I have gone from growing up on a rural farm to early retirement in silicon valley, and I frequently worry whether I've lost my connection to how regular humans operate. It's nice to see that there's a group of people out there striving to make me feel like I'm still quite grounded! It's like how kids think that milk comes from the grocery store, except the adult version where they have no comprehension about how anything they rely on to live works.
"Trusty" is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, codename "Trusty Tahr", released in 2014-04 and supported until 2019-04.
"LTS" is long-term supported versions of Ubuntu, which receive security updates for five years.
"Chromium" is a web browser published by Google with all the proprietary parts stripped out.
"snap" is a packaged application distributed by the Ubuntu store, which runs in a container to isolate its dependencies.
Translation: If you're still running Ubuntu 14.04, you can get the latest Google web browser as a self-contained package.
Whoa. Your translation _is_ super long compared to the original text!
If someone went back in time and changed history, you wouldn't even know it. It's pretty much an impossible to falsify argument. So yeah, it could be true, but then Big Foot could be real along with werewolves, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Or how about those sightings of pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea? I mean FFS, if you're going to seriously entertain the time traveler hypothesis, knowing it probably can't be falsified, you can't dismiss things like cryptids either.
So you're saying that Nessie was a time traveler? OMG! It explains so much!
Wow, this will save me like five minutes a week!
Assuming the failure rate isn't horrendous, and then instead of talking to some front-line person with a service incentive to quickly make a reservation or appointment, I'll be talking to an overwhelmed backend support person trying to fix a screw-up. So 19 times out of 20, you'll save 90 seconds, and the other time you'll lose 45 minutes.
The video appears to show macro shots of a drone-sized mock-up (I guess to make it look full-sized?), plus a bunch of renders. You can't just show footage from Avatar, then make a bunch of assertions about what your pricing for that is going to be! Maybe they hired the flat-earth steam-rocket guy onto their marketing team?
But I liked the render of flying 2,000 feet above traffic ... it's not like that traffic surrounding the launch facility will be at all relevant to getting to the launch facility...
AFAICT, top grads from top schools move to Silicon Valley. Period. We only have a couple of the top schools in the bay area so that implies that the rest of them are coming from top schools outside the bay area. We have top people from Waterloo, Georgia Tech, IIT, basically everywhere. It's not even complicated, the top jobs are mostly here, most people don't want to play second fiddle in a securities trading shop or insurance company when they can be top dogs in a software firm. Silicon Valley's position as the dominant region is gradually changing over time, but the jobs aren't dispersing evenly into the world, there are just other concentrated locales you can also consider these days like Seattle.
While Google is putting support behind RCS, it's not a Google thing, it's an industry-standard evolution of SMS. Google really should do better and offer end-to-end encryption, but that would only work in their walled garden, and they would still have to interoperate with everyone outside of that garden, who they have no control over.
My first real employment gave 10 days, rising to 15 days after a few years of tenure, which was the same package my wife had for her first few fulltime jobs. Then I got a job at a place which STARTED at 15 days, and built to 25 days, and I realized - 10 days of vacation isn't some blessing for top performers, it's a sign of how broken American employment is. With only 10 days it becomes really challenging to cover your various life events (sibling's graduation, niece's wedding, etc) and also take any sort of worthwhile vacation. So you end up spending it in dribs and drabs, maybe with a one-week block somewhere, or you don't take minimal vacation for a few years to bank time for something longer in the future.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people should just be slackers. But 10 days per year is unhealthy.
[And I realize that this is #firstworldproblem, given the many people who completely lack control over their working time and have effectively zero vacation days, which is also completely broken of us as a society.]
Seriously, this is considered worth posting? Don't get me wrong, I live out here, I've watched things progress, but it's not like reality had a hole where tech fits. Instead, for the most part, tech makes shit up and some of it changes reality. But the vast majority of it is just insanely ill-thought-out and sinks back into the swamp. That's not some weird new state we need to recover from, that's been the status quo in tech for decades. And the tech sector has grown tons in spite of that, with commentators grousing all the way.
[The above should not be taken as a blessing on the status quo. I've been one of those grousers since the early 90's. But I am also keenly aware that for all that I feel like how things work is embarrassing and we need to do better, I still have no fucking clue how to fix it.]
You don't make a viral hit by saying "I want to make a viral hit, how do I do it?" You get started, release, provide details, show your enthusiasm by obviously putting more time into it, answer stupid questions over and over until someone starts helping, and you just keep it up. That would take all of 30 minutes to get rolling on Github.
You provided ZERO details in your ask-slashdot! Literally none! So all signs currently point to you perhaps being unwilling to give up enough control to benefit from other people helping.
If you're asking how to convince someone else to write the system for your language, haha, good luck, that's not how it works, people who have those skills don't need you as a source of ideas. Linus Torvalds succeeded by doing MASSIVE amounts of work himself, and others starts helping to a lesser extent. Also, he didn't wait for anyone else to start helping, he just started doing without concern for whether it was viable or whether anyone else would contribute. In other words, just do it, don't wait around for someone else to carry your water.
Or maybe it does occur to them and they don't care. Or want government to go after troublemakers like protesters... The job of law enforcement often attracts a certain mentality.
The country is full of people who think that we can trust law enforcement with this kind of thing - often the self-same people who think that we cannot trust the government IN ANY OTHER AREA OF LIFE.
The paper describes a method of adding jank to applications which will cause users to frown and furrow their eyebrows, which in turn can be monitored by a high-def camera furtively installed on their monitor to communicate between 100 and 1337 bits per minute to attackers.
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Honestly, who approves this research? I mean, yes, it's possible, but if your computer is "air-gapped" and the attackers have the ability to breath your air, you are already screwed.
Linked articles don't really have anything on things which might co-exist with staying up late. For instance, in mortality cases, did staying up late cause health issues leading to death, or was there a health issue which made it hard to sleep which also eventually caused death? Does stress affect sleep? Does staying up late correlate with lack of exercise? The list could go on and on. Without a mechanism, it's silly/stupid to suggest modifying things like the job market to fix the problem. It's comparable to saying "Cholesterol is bad, you should be really careful about eating eggs."
Back in those days, you didn't have a computer in your pocket. I had no computer access until school started in fall (and then it was really limited). So I wrote a threaded-code FORTH kernel in 6502 assembly on lined paper. Then I debugged it and rewrote it a couple times in between milking cows and attending band camp. By the time I had semi-routine computer access again, I had lots of other stuff I wanted to get to, so I never actually saw it in action.
IOW, big deal, a computer scientist makes do with the tools available to build solutions. Even today, decades later, when I want to _really_ get a problem solved rather than just dicking around with it pretending to work, I take some legal pads to a quiet spot with no computer access and get shit done. When you go interview for a job, they also are probably not going to give you an IDE. When you get a job and have a project proposal, they aren't going to sit and watch you screw around in an IDE for a few hours until you start making sense.
This article:
http://ideas.4brad.com/it-cert...
suggests that the LIDAR was turned off, and has some technical explanation around why things might have failed.
Yes, this was hard to see using passive techniques with visible light (ie, your eyes), but WTF, the person wasn't sprinting or jumping off the curb, something active like LIDAR should have had no troubles spotting this.
Graphic novels and comic books are a medium through which to tell a story. There are really good ones that take a long time to work through and keep your attention well. There are horrid ones where you find yourself flipping back and forth between adjacent pages because you feel like there was a printing error and they forgot five or six pages. Starting out is like starting out with fiction, or movies, it's reasonable to just pick a couple well-reviewed pieces which are materially different from each other so you can get a sense for what works for you, then narrow things down going forward.
Thank goodness we've swung into action and comprehensively resolved this problem! See, Trump was entirely right that foreign aid and a functioning State Department are vestigial in this day and age.
You are attaching too much importance to the iPhone CPUs (and Android) market. It is doubtful the margins are high on those, especially since Apple has multiple manufacturers. That is like saying Apple missed out on making Android phones because there were so many of them out there. You don't want to enter a cutthroat low-margin market.
Also, what if Apple had gone with Intel for their CPU, and then failed because Intel's CPUs sucked batteries dry? Or because having the same CPU in desktops, laptops, and mobile devices lead Apple to the obvious path of cross-platform compatibility, and that sucked batteries dry? Or if Apple wanted to gradually take over more of the system to customize it to better serve their needs, and Intel said "F. U."? I think Apple was probably lucky on Intel turning them down.
Why do we require one image to signify humanity on wikipedia? The pages for cats, dogs, birds, bats, spiders and fruit all feature composite images of the many species represented in one image. Why would the page for humans be any different? Indeed, the page goes on to show many examples of humans.
Am I missing something here?
Having a single example of every fricking thing, and then arguing over it endlessly, demonstrates our basic tendency towards absolutist/fundamentalist positions. We want to have the "right" example, with the rest explained away as exceptions, rather than a bunch of examples which together cover the space.