Amen to that. From the moment I saw on screen the initial "explanations" where they mentioned "open-ended lifespan" for some replicants models I asked to myself "why?" Not only why would anybody allow immortal replicants at all, but why would anybody think that could improve the story in any conceivable way. Then it hit me that they needed them for reasons, because that's the only way they could concoct a story where you could somehow shoehorn Harrison Ford. Then I knew the film was going to suck big time, and I was not wrong. Synthetic narratives have a way of sucking that no honest narrative can imitate.
Windows Phone users are considered an endangered species, and a careful experiment is taking place, where a selective stress is induced in the fragile ecosystem, to watch the reaction of the elusive beasts.
One village. I mean it'a just one village, and they cannot all speak the same language? I'm all for cultural diversity and all that crap, but, surely 7001 languages are a bit too much? There is a need to have 7000 plus different ways of asking somebody to pass you the salt?
First Dragster, now Kong... Will Space Invaders be next, or.. or.. even, I dare not say it, yes, even Pong? Will Pong fail too? Now that I think of it, you cannot have a Pong record, can you?
I use Office only only rarely, but would like to ask to heavier users... I remember 2K as being a clear improvement over 97. Then you got 2003 that was similar to 2000 so no reason to upgrade. Then 2007 that had the dreaded ribbon and was file-incompatible so you more or less had to upgrade to open the incompatible files every moron that just couldn't be in a release that wasn't the last one sent you. Then 2010?, perhaps, 2013, I'm pretty sure that exists, probably others, then 365, one release to end all releases and in the darkness bind all users. As I read what I wrote I'm starting to think that they will change again the file format for Office 2019, just in case...
So the question to power users is: Has been any reason, i mean feature-wise, to upgrade Office since Office 2000 ?
Being mostly out of the Apple ecosystem, I was surprised the other day when I was driven by a friend. She was answering calls without using the hands-free Bluetooth car connection, and I asked her why. She told me that she had forgotten the charging cable at home, and that keeping the bluetooth on would drain the battery faster, and battery didn't last very long, as, you know, she added apologetically, "my phone it's an Apple".
I'd put my friend as a typical Apple user: well-off and absolutely not technically oriented, She will probably keep buying iPhones, as her computers are all from Apple, and learning new things is a hassle. But anyway I found it curious to find a typical Apple user apologizing for her choice of smartphone. That's not how Apple got to the top, and, even if it's just anecdotal evidence, has a sound of bells tolling in the distance.
So I'd suppose that Apple has to take that into account and improve it's battery-consumption act.
But is the Defense Department ready for the enormous challenges that lie at the intersection of military power and artificial intelligence?
Nobody is ready. The paradigm change is even bigger than the one generated by the introduction of air power and armored vehicles. Nobody can predict exactly which best practices will in the end be revealed as the most effective. Will politicians be unable to put a feet on the streets because swarms of flying robotic explosive cockroaches guided by AI will attack them with lethal intentions? Will the whole human army have to be disbanded like outdated crossbow soldiers, or will a mixed force be most effective?
Those questions and many others will depend on the pace of advancement of technology and economics. But I fear that we are ready for living in interesting times.
Would be cheaper to call some friend that he had in a different time zone, wait for sunrise and ask if the sun is rising there now. If answer is no, try to explain that with a flat earth.
Who used glasses back then? Not any serious drinker. French kissing the bottle was the absolute minimum. Anybody serious bathed directly in the wine barrel head first.
On the other side, If they built a newsroom, no idea how much would that cost, but anyway if they did, and then they linked preferentially to that news source, the same outlets to complain now for being linked, would be crying illegal monopoly at the top of their lungs, and demanding to be linked on equal standing.
I guess that the main lesson here is that seismic technological transitions always have somebody with the foot in the wrong place.
they would be pushed out of the field, as government leaders in the postwar era held a then-common belief that women shouldn't be allowed into higher-paid professions with long-term prospects
And please why that didn't happen in medicine, for example? Or in law practice, or in accounting, or in social services, veterinaries... Somehow the law faculties were less hostile to the sudden influx of females? Allow me to be skeptical of that.
We humans are really bad at getting to grips with complex processes, and are much more comfortable with a narrative, that simplifies the process in a couple of rough brush strokes that are easily consumable. Much better if the "story" has a bad guy against which personal irritations of one's daily life can find a target. To recognize that the playing board of society is more or less fair, and that sexes gravitate to the jobs that better fit them, taking into account all kind of conditions, is probably too much to ask.
But still! Nevertheless! To choose precisely tech among all fields, for that inane tale! I cannot think of an area where the last decades have been more dynamic, the demand for talent so pressing, the barriers of entry so low, and the competence so fierce. Does anybody really think that the under-representation of the females (never enough regretted by the males, I feel compelled to add) in this field is some sort of Machiavellian plot?
Had Google be better served by a mixed team, would they have renounced to it for...exactly what? And then they would have their lunch eaten by Bing, that had in the meantime renounced to the loggia's precepts and admitted many women to the development team. Netscape rests in the pantheon of heroes, because they could have been saved by a timely infusion of the female of the species, but they chose to sink with honor instead of selling themselves to the enemy. And when everybody was building the next wonderful thing in Silicon Valley, venture capitalists sent promising teams packing if they could smell just a bit of perfume in the presentation, just because they were not really in the business of getting rich, but part of a global sinister conspiracy,
Microsoft and Qualcomm are showing off the first Windows 10 on ARM devices, which provide Win32 app compatibility via emulation.
I think that's kind of a slippery slope for Microsoft. Probably not many Windows programs are going to be ported to Win10 ARM. So you get people used to work with most programs in emulation and then you find that they substitute Windows10 + emulator by Android + emulator, or iOS + emulator. I see in the future a Microsoft vs. Apple/Google lawsuit where Microsoft claims, Oracle-style, copyright over the Win32 API.
However, seeing the docking stations of Samsumg last models, that can turn the mobile into a sort of desktop, perhaps that was their only option, who knows.
I am always suspicious of things like this because someone is probably getting paid by Microsoft
More likely the city is playing for a good price in the transition. It's not useful to deny the reality that the Windows ecosystem is easier, more complete and more familiar than the Linux one. Moving to Linux means limitations in software and hardware. Limitations mean that you cannot do your work as easily as in Windows.
A single city, even a behemoth like Munich, is not enough to change that reality. When (if ever) we get a big country committed to Linux we would see drivers being developed for all kind of peripherals if they wanted to enter into tenders, software being adapted (a replacement for Exchange, hopefully), schools teaching with it... But until then the advance is going to be a glacial one, and only major mistakes by Microsoft are going to change that.
I wonder how eBay will validate the authenticity since the knock-offs are getting pretty darn close.
Two things.
First, Luxury handbags are usually made by hand by expert artisans. Not so easy to reproduce exactly as a machined item.
Second. They are probably counting on sellers of counterfeits not to use the "Authenticate" process, out of caution. So buyers can more or less trust a seller that is willing to "Authenticate", just by the fact of it.
4) You can probably decided to turn the AI off to drive long distances, thereby saving battery life.
I'd say that is the most unexplored way of saving energy. A properly designed system will demand substantially less power in some situations, and much more in others. Probably, today's prototypes draw the same kind of power when the car is stopped waiting for a traffic light, when the car is cruising alone, when you approach a busy intersection...
"Premature optimization..." and all that. You first get a system that works, then you tweak it. We are still getting the working system, optimization will have to wait. I suppose in some years we'll have a driver-SoC on the market, and this whole thread will be a source of amusement.
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You cannot gentrify globally. Not enough gentry, I'd say.
Movie sucked who cares
Amen to that. From the moment I saw on screen the initial "explanations" where they mentioned "open-ended lifespan" for some replicants models I asked to myself "why?" Not only why would anybody allow immortal replicants at all, but why would anybody think that could improve the story in any conceivable way. Then it hit me that they needed them for reasons, because that's the only way they could concoct a story where you could somehow shoehorn Harrison Ford. Then I knew the film was going to suck big time, and I was not wrong. Synthetic narratives have a way of sucking that no honest narrative can imitate.
Windows Phone users are considered an endangered species, and a careful experiment is taking place, where a selective stress is induced in the fragile ecosystem, to watch the reaction of the elusive beasts.
Equipped with movement or temperature sensors
Wouldn't that increase the weight of the thing quite a bit?
to deliver a message
Wouldn't the needed hardware also increase the weight of the thing? Except, I suppose, if they transmit by light pulses.
Anyway the thing is impressive, but as with many impressive things, practical applications may be elusive.
One village. I mean it'a just one village, and they cannot all speak the same language? I'm all for cultural diversity and all that crap, but, surely 7001 languages are a bit too much? There is a need to have 7000 plus different ways of asking somebody to pass you the salt?
640 languages should be enough for everybody.
...but volume is better, they seem to be saying.
It stands to reason that ALIEN AI would be much more advanced than ours. That's what we should be worrying about.
Not that worrying will do us any good...
Perhaps he was being subtle and opposing "de jure" as not "de facto". That is, not a "real" language but a theoretical (legal) construction.
First Dragster, now Kong... Will Space Invaders be next, or.. or.. even, I dare not say it, yes, even Pong? Will Pong fail too? Now that I think of it, you cannot have a Pong record, can you?
I use Office only only rarely, but would like to ask to heavier users... I remember 2K as being a clear improvement over 97. Then you got 2003 that was similar to 2000 so no reason to upgrade. Then 2007 that had the dreaded ribbon and was file-incompatible so you more or less had to upgrade to open the incompatible files every moron that just couldn't be in a release that wasn't the last one sent you. Then 2010?, perhaps, 2013, I'm pretty sure that exists, probably others, then 365, one release to end all releases and in the darkness bind all users. As I read what I wrote I'm starting to think that they will change again the file format for Office 2019, just in case...
So the question to power users is: Has been any reason, i mean feature-wise, to upgrade Office since Office 2000 ?
Being mostly out of the Apple ecosystem, I was surprised the other day when I was driven by a friend. She was answering calls without using the hands-free Bluetooth car connection, and I asked her why. She told me that she had forgotten the charging cable at home, and that keeping the bluetooth on would drain the battery faster, and battery didn't last very long, as, you know, she added apologetically, "my phone it's an Apple".
I'd put my friend as a typical Apple user: well-off and absolutely not technically oriented, She will probably keep buying iPhones, as her computers are all from Apple, and learning new things is a hassle. But anyway I found it curious to find a typical Apple user apologizing for her choice of smartphone. That's not how Apple got to the top, and, even if it's just anecdotal evidence, has a sound of bells tolling in the distance.
So I'd suppose that Apple has to take that into account and improve it's battery-consumption act.
Still more difficulties for law enforcement agencies? There are evil geniuses at Microsoft, too!
Now is the time for BLOCKBUSTER to join in. That name is just begging to be converted to something-crypto-something-blockchain-something.
Yes. I'd say Kevin Poulsen is now starting to feel depressed...
There is the option of using a sheath. A nice leather sheath will protect your phone and will let it be seen when used.
That's why I keep coming to /., even when the quality of the articles keep going down. It's not very verbose and you get the important alerts.
This alert has allowed me to disable automatic updates in Thunderbird, because apparently some people cannot left good enough alone.
But is the Defense Department ready for the enormous challenges that lie at the intersection of military power and artificial intelligence?
Nobody is ready. The paradigm change is even bigger than the one generated by the introduction of air power and armored vehicles. Nobody can predict exactly which best practices will in the end be revealed as the most effective. Will politicians be unable to put a feet on the streets because swarms of flying robotic explosive cockroaches guided by AI will attack them with lethal intentions? Will the whole human army have to be disbanded like outdated crossbow soldiers, or will a mixed force be most effective?
Those questions and many others will depend on the pace of advancement of technology and economics. But I fear that we are ready for living in interesting times.
Would be cheaper to call some friend that he had in a different time zone, wait for sunrise and ask if the sun is rising there now. If answer is no, try to explain that with a flat earth.
Who used glasses back then? Not any serious drinker. French kissing the bottle was the absolute minimum. Anybody serious bathed directly in the wine barrel head first.
Yet neither Facebook nor Google have a newsroom
Don't start giving them ideas...
On the other side, If they built a newsroom, no idea how much would that cost, but anyway if they did, and then they linked preferentially to that news source, the same outlets to complain now for being linked, would be crying illegal monopoly at the top of their lungs, and demanding to be linked on equal standing.
I guess that the main lesson here is that seismic technological transitions always have somebody with the foot in the wrong place.
they would be pushed out of the field, as government leaders in the postwar era held a then-common belief that women shouldn't be allowed into higher-paid professions with long-term prospects
And please why that didn't happen in medicine, for example? Or in law practice, or in accounting, or in social services, veterinaries... Somehow the law faculties were less hostile to the sudden influx of females? Allow me to be skeptical of that.
We humans are really bad at getting to grips with complex processes, and are much more comfortable with a narrative, that simplifies the process in a couple of rough brush strokes that are easily consumable. Much better if the "story" has a bad guy against which personal irritations of one's daily life can find a target. To recognize that the playing board of society is more or less fair, and that sexes gravitate to the jobs that better fit them, taking into account all kind of conditions, is probably too much to ask.
But still! Nevertheless! To choose precisely tech among all fields, for that inane tale! I cannot think of an area where the last decades have been more dynamic, the demand for talent so pressing, the barriers of entry so low, and the competence so fierce. Does anybody really think that the under-representation of the females (never enough regretted by the males, I feel compelled to add) in this field is some sort of Machiavellian plot?
Had Google be better served by a mixed team, would they have renounced to it for...exactly what? And then they would have their lunch eaten by Bing, that had in the meantime renounced to the loggia's precepts and admitted many women to the development team. Netscape rests in the pantheon of heroes, because they could have been saved by a timely infusion of the female of the species, but they chose to sink with honor instead of selling themselves to the enemy. And when everybody was building the next wonderful thing in Silicon Valley, venture capitalists sent promising teams packing if they could smell just a bit of perfume in the presentation, just because they were not really in the business of getting rich, but part of a global sinister conspiracy,
Utter nonsense.
Microsoft and Qualcomm are showing off the first Windows 10 on ARM devices, which provide Win32 app compatibility via emulation.
I think that's kind of a slippery slope for Microsoft. Probably not many Windows programs are going to be ported to Win10 ARM. So you get people used to work with most programs in emulation and then you find that they substitute Windows10 + emulator by Android + emulator, or iOS + emulator. I see in the future a Microsoft vs. Apple/Google lawsuit where Microsoft claims, Oracle-style, copyright over the Win32 API.
However, seeing the docking stations of Samsumg last models, that can turn the mobile into a sort of desktop, perhaps that was their only option, who knows.
I am always suspicious of things like this because someone is probably getting paid by Microsoft
More likely the city is playing for a good price in the transition. It's not useful to deny the reality that the Windows ecosystem is easier, more complete and more familiar than the Linux one. Moving to Linux means limitations in software and hardware. Limitations mean that you cannot do your work as easily as in Windows.
A single city, even a behemoth like Munich, is not enough to change that reality. When (if ever) we get a big country committed to Linux we would see drivers being developed for all kind of peripherals if they wanted to enter into tenders, software being adapted (a replacement for Exchange, hopefully), schools teaching with it... But until then the advance is going to be a glacial one, and only major mistakes by Microsoft are going to change that.
I wonder how eBay will validate the authenticity since the knock-offs are getting pretty darn close.
Two things.
First, Luxury handbags are usually made by hand by expert artisans. Not so easy to reproduce exactly as a machined item.
Second. They are probably counting on sellers of counterfeits not to use the "Authenticate" process, out of caution. So buyers can more or less trust a seller that is willing to "Authenticate", just by the fact of it.
4) You can probably decided to turn the AI off to drive long distances, thereby saving battery life.
I'd say that is the most unexplored way of saving energy. A properly designed system will demand substantially less power in some situations, and much more in others. Probably, today's prototypes draw the same kind of power when the car is stopped waiting for a traffic light, when the car is cruising alone, when you approach a busy intersection...
"Premature optimization..." and all that. You first get a system that works, then you tweak it. We are still getting the working system, optimization will have to wait. I suppose in some years we'll have a driver-SoC on the market, and this whole thread will be a source of amusement.