I was going to post the exact same thing and you beat me to it. A decade ago I was invited to my son's middle school class on career day. I started off my talk by asking the students to point out all the computers in the room. Of course they pointed to the couple laptop workstations over in the corner. I asked them what other computers were in the room and they drew a blank. By the time we had gone around the room, I had pointed out the analog-looking clock on the wall, which contained a microcontroller that counted the oscillations of a quartz crystal to keep time, the TV remote control, the TV itself, their calculators, flip phones, watches, the thermometer in the fish tank, etc, etc. Once they started to understand they all started calling out things that, most all correctly, did contain a CPU / MCU, etc. All of those things were "computers" by the definition that they contained software instructions that told them what to do, and that a software developer (like myself), or even an entire team of developers, had written the software that made that device do what it was supposed to do.
So as you said, I also argue that the "ambient computing" age was reached a long time ago when miniaturization allowed the computing hardware to be embedded in small, single-purpose devices.
Yes, but politicians get more votes from low-income residents when they give low-income residents things totally for free. When someone buys a $12 prepaid card a politician can't get the credit for it. When a politician pushes a law that gives phone service away totally for free, that will buy them votes.
You missed the part where it would be a flat fee. So in other words they're taxing any cellular plan capable of texting, whether or not you actually text.
So in terms of usefulness, this is the least useful semiconductor yet, since it is far easier to super cool a semiconductor than apply ludicrous amounts of pressure.
Instead of blurring they should just stamp down a Walmart and its parking lot, plus maybe a Dollar Tree plaza along with it. They can just scale the whole thing as needed - it's not like most people have any idea what they are looking at anyway.:)
Probably for the same reason I have failed to be successful as a business (aka profiting in a big way from my projects). I consider myself an innovator and someone who pushed the boundaries of technology at various points in time. See this and this for public examples. However my problem is I'm not motivated by money, I'm not a good marketer, and I'm not interested in being a businessman.
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc didn't become billionaires because they were the best software developers in the world or because they were the first to create a given product. It was because they could market an idea, as well as simply being in the right place at the right time. Evelyn Berezin more than likely failed due to the business side of things.
These things died because Microsoft lost the monopoly on the OS / platform used to access the internet, because Steve Jobs wouldn't allow those technologies on the iOS platform that wrested control away from Microsoft, and finally because of the fundamental paradigm shift that also occurred (mouse / keyboard input on a PC to touchscreen on a tiny mobile display).
I feel like I just walked in on a conversation between two people about a topic I care nothing about. Should I care, or maybe do I already care? Possibly, but I have no idea what they're talking about to know.
the blockchain technology that drives it, and make no mistake, blockchain is the real deal. Blockchain is fundamentally changing the way industries do business, from traditional banking to supply chain management. But just because blockchain technology is creating a new paradigm
Wait, are we talking about the same blockchain?
Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.
The problem isn't the robot, it's the bear spray. A person is just as likely to accidentally puncture a box on a pallet when using a forklift, hand truck, etc. I think they need to reevaluate keeping chemicals as danagerous as bear spray in warehouses not designed for hazardous materials.
Of course not. This "falling asleep at the wheel" phenomenon is totally new and only happens in Teslas.
Really? A drunk driver in a non-self-driving vehicle can't get up to 70 MPH and nod off, crossing the median and hitting a car head on? You realize 10,000 people die annually in the US due to DUI because of *exactly* what happened to the driver in this Tesla? There's nothing "new" about this. A self-driving vehicle did not "enable" any additional level of unsafe driving than any other vehicle capable of reaching 70 MPH.
Tesla declined to comment on the incident, but John Simpson, privacy/technology project director for Consumer Watchdog, calls this proof that Tesla has wrongly convinced drivers their cars' "autopilot" function really could perform fully autonomous driving...
"They've really unconscionably led people to believe, I think, that the car is far more capable of self-driving than actually is the case. That's a huge problem."
So let me see if I have this straight. 10,000 people a year die in DUI crashes, yet all these drunk drivers are not the fault of Ford, Toyota, Chevy, Nissan, etc. The liability is totally on the driver that decided to operate a vehicle while intoxicated.
However when someone drives a Tesla drunk, it is Tesla's fault. Yes, that makes perfect sense, Mr. Simpleton. I mean Simpson.
And this is what we get for browsers forcing websites to adopt HTTPS or else they try to scare people with warnings about pages not being secure. I run a site that provides 100% publicly available information in a totally read-only / user agnostic manner. There are no accounts, no sessions, etc. Just the display of information. I had to switch to HTTPS because of uninformed users thinking something was wrong with my site because of browser warnings.
Now users have a misguided trust that since a browser didn't warn them about a site, and since it has a secure padlock, it must be safe. Sounds like the type of solutions politicians end up creating to fix one minor problem yet causing several more severe ones. It's not the job of web browsers to force websites to be secure. Just because they can wield such power because of the technical aspects doesn't mean they should.
Every single example shown in the photos was for businesses with a foreign flare - the vast majority of them were Asian, with a couple Mexican businesses in there too. It's pretty obvious to me that the font is expressing the brush type strokes used in Chinese and Japanese (Shodo) calligraphy, but in English letters. The font is being used to convey a very specific meaning, and the reason you see it so often is there are simply that many foreign themed businesses in New York.
So are you saying that the Mayor of the city that runs the New York Subway system is in no way responsible for or has an impact on the New York Subway system? Isn't that kinda like his job?
Ridership was increasing annually by 50 million through 2014, then in 2015 it only increased by 11 million, and it has been decreasing at an accelerating rate since. Democrat Bill de Blasio became mayor in 2014. Funny timing huh?
I have an online service that sends me texts daily (weather forecasts and alerts), as well as a few other people. At some point my cell company started blocking those texts sent by my system. The others still received them (different cell carriers) but I did not, for a period of a few weeks. Then they started coming through again out of the blue.
No notification, no action on my part to indicate they were spam, no recourse to try and get my server whitelisted, etc. They just went in a black hole. I visited my carrier's website and there was no portal I could find for services to contact the carrier about being blocked.
I'm sure the"robotext-blocking and anti-spoofing measures" help in the scheme of things, but this stuff needs to be standardized and centralized in some way.
That's a good idea, because Musk has a joystick that he uses to remotely pilot each launched rocket, and must always have his wits about him to insure that the rockets don't crash and burn. Sorry, but this is just a bit ridiculous on NASA's part.
"Quietly Discontinues"? What were they supposed to do, spend a quarter million on a full page ad in the New York Times announcing it? They announced it through their normal channels. What more were they supposed to do exactly?
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Does Youtube even care? Why should they? The video has 138 million views in 10 days. Mission accomplished.
I was going to post the exact same thing and you beat me to it. A decade ago I was invited to my son's middle school class on career day. I started off my talk by asking the students to point out all the computers in the room. Of course they pointed to the couple laptop workstations over in the corner. I asked them what other computers were in the room and they drew a blank. By the time we had gone around the room, I had pointed out the analog-looking clock on the wall, which contained a microcontroller that counted the oscillations of a quartz crystal to keep time, the TV remote control, the TV itself, their calculators, flip phones, watches, the thermometer in the fish tank, etc, etc. Once they started to understand they all started calling out things that, most all correctly, did contain a CPU / MCU, etc. All of those things were "computers" by the definition that they contained software instructions that told them what to do, and that a software developer (like myself), or even an entire team of developers, had written the software that made that device do what it was supposed to do.
So as you said, I also argue that the "ambient computing" age was reached a long time ago when miniaturization allowed the computing hardware to be embedded in small, single-purpose devices.
Maybe the guy just came back from planet Chapek 9.
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Yes, but politicians get more votes from low-income residents when they give low-income residents things totally for free. When someone buys a $12 prepaid card a politician can't get the credit for it. When a politician pushes a law that gives phone service away totally for free, that will buy them votes.
It says flat tax. If your cellular service includes texting you get an extra tax.
You missed the part where it would be a flat fee. So in other words they're taxing any cellular plan capable of texting, whether or not you actually text.
So in terms of usefulness, this is the least useful semiconductor yet, since it is far easier to super cool a semiconductor than apply ludicrous amounts of pressure.
Instead of blurring they should just stamp down a Walmart and its parking lot, plus maybe a Dollar Tree plaza along with it. They can just scale the whole thing as needed - it's not like most people have any idea what they are looking at anyway. :)
Probably for the same reason I have failed to be successful as a business (aka profiting in a big way from my projects). I consider myself an innovator and someone who pushed the boundaries of technology at various points in time. See this and this for public examples. However my problem is I'm not motivated by money, I'm not a good marketer, and I'm not interested in being a businessman.
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, etc didn't become billionaires because they were the best software developers in the world or because they were the first to create a given product. It was because they could market an idea, as well as simply being in the right place at the right time. Evelyn Berezin more than likely failed due to the business side of things.
These things died because Microsoft lost the monopoly on the OS / platform used to access the internet, because Steve Jobs wouldn't allow those technologies on the iOS platform that wrested control away from Microsoft, and finally because of the fundamental paradigm shift that also occurred (mouse / keyboard input on a PC to touchscreen on a tiny mobile display).
I feel like I just walked in on a conversation between two people about a topic I care nothing about. Should I care, or maybe do I already care? Possibly, but I have no idea what they're talking about to know.
the blockchain technology that drives it, and make no mistake, blockchain is the real deal. Blockchain is fundamentally changing the way industries do business, from traditional banking to supply chain management. But just because blockchain technology is creating a new paradigm
Wait, are we talking about the same blockchain?
Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.
Blockchain Study Finds 0% Success Rate and Vendors Don't Call Back When Asked For Evidence
The problem isn't the robot, it's the bear spray. A person is just as likely to accidentally puncture a box on a pallet when using a forklift, hand truck, etc. I think they need to reevaluate keeping chemicals as danagerous as bear spray in warehouses not designed for hazardous materials.
The far side of the moon is where Sam Bell's clones are mining helium-3. It's already been claimed.
If ever there was a perfect name for a communist "company", "Perfect World" would be it.
Of course not. This "falling asleep at the wheel" phenomenon is totally new and only happens in Teslas.
Really? A drunk driver in a non-self-driving vehicle can't get up to 70 MPH and nod off, crossing the median and hitting a car head on? You realize 10,000 people die annually in the US due to DUI because of *exactly* what happened to the driver in this Tesla? There's nothing "new" about this. A self-driving vehicle did not "enable" any additional level of unsafe driving than any other vehicle capable of reaching 70 MPH.
Tesla declined to comment on the incident, but John Simpson, privacy/technology project director for Consumer Watchdog, calls this proof that Tesla has wrongly convinced drivers their cars' "autopilot" function really could perform fully autonomous driving...
"They've really unconscionably led people to believe, I think, that the car is far more capable of self-driving than actually is the case. That's a huge problem."
So let me see if I have this straight. 10,000 people a year die in DUI crashes, yet all these drunk drivers are not the fault of Ford, Toyota, Chevy, Nissan, etc. The liability is totally on the driver that decided to operate a vehicle while intoxicated.
However when someone drives a Tesla drunk, it is Tesla's fault. Yes, that makes perfect sense, Mr. Simpleton. I mean Simpson.
And this is what we get for browsers forcing websites to adopt HTTPS or else they try to scare people with warnings about pages not being secure. I run a site that provides 100% publicly available information in a totally read-only / user agnostic manner. There are no accounts, no sessions, etc. Just the display of information. I had to switch to HTTPS because of uninformed users thinking something was wrong with my site because of browser warnings.
Now users have a misguided trust that since a browser didn't warn them about a site, and since it has a secure padlock, it must be safe. Sounds like the type of solutions politicians end up creating to fix one minor problem yet causing several more severe ones. It's not the job of web browsers to force websites to be secure. Just because they can wield such power because of the technical aspects doesn't mean they should.
Every single example shown in the photos was for businesses with a foreign flare - the vast majority of them were Asian, with a couple Mexican businesses in there too. It's pretty obvious to me that the font is expressing the brush type strokes used in Chinese and Japanese (Shodo) calligraphy, but in English letters. The font is being used to convey a very specific meaning, and the reason you see it so often is there are simply that many foreign themed businesses in New York.
Paul Harvey please. Thank you.
So are you saying that the Mayor of the city that runs the New York Subway system is in no way responsible for or has an impact on the New York Subway system? Isn't that kinda like his job?
Ridership was increasing annually by 50 million through 2014, then in 2015 it only increased by 11 million, and it has been decreasing at an accelerating rate since. Democrat Bill de Blasio became mayor in 2014. Funny timing huh?
http://web.mta.info/nyct/facts...
I have an online service that sends me texts daily (weather forecasts and alerts), as well as a few other people. At some point my cell company started blocking those texts sent by my system. The others still received them (different cell carriers) but I did not, for a period of a few weeks. Then they started coming through again out of the blue.
No notification, no action on my part to indicate they were spam, no recourse to try and get my server whitelisted, etc. They just went in a black hole. I visited my carrier's website and there was no portal I could find for services to contact the carrier about being blocked.
I'm sure the"robotext-blocking and anti-spoofing measures" help in the scheme of things, but this stuff needs to be standardized and centralized in some way.
That's a good idea, because Musk has a joystick that he uses to remotely pilot each launched rocket, and must always have his wits about him to insure that the rockets don't crash and burn. Sorry, but this is just a bit ridiculous on NASA's part.
"Quietly Discontinues"? What were they supposed to do, spend a quarter million on a full page ad in the New York Times announcing it? They announced it through their normal channels. What more were they supposed to do exactly?