You're assuming that computer driven cars can actually work in the real world on real streets with real drivers, pedestrians, unforeseen obstacles, etc. I doubt "driverless cars" will be replacing taxis, buses, and delivery vehicles any time soon. Plus, it'd just be too tempting for some mischievous individuals to set up driverless car traps that take advantage of bugs/faults in their navigation algorithms. It could make a great art project/youtube video.
Ah, so the "Idiot's Guide to..." has made its way onto the web. Except for, in this instance, without any editorial or quality control. I bet most of the semi-decent courses are posted there free for promotional purposes, either for anyone who might be interested in attending their educational organisation, e.g. college or university, or for using a particular product, e.g. high-end media production software and/or hardware. There's nothing new here and it simply encourages the typical Silicon Valley business model of make your content producers compete with each other in a race to the bottom and make the real profits for yourself from hosting, administering, and promoting the system... you know, by pushing stories into media outlets about how it's going to revolutionise education. Here's a great video about the history of new media technologies in education, "This Will Revolutionize Education": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Loads of schools have bought and are buying iPads without much of an idea of what they're going to use them for, let alone a coherent educational plan. The end result? Expensive, distracting toys that have little, if any, demonstrable effects on learning outcomes in K-12 education. Then there's stories like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01... Developmental psychologists are less than enamoured of shiny, techy internet gadgets in classrooms and children's pockets.
Yes, re: "Apple has been very visionary in creating and expanding significant new consumer electronics categories," -- They slipped that one in hoping nobody would actually think about it. What have Apple Inc. created?
First PC? Olivetti.
First laptop? IBM.
First portable digital media player? Kane Kramer (IXI).
First tablet computer? Samsung's GRiDPad.
First smartphone? Nokia.
What else do Apple sell? What about their infamous reality distortion field? I think we've had propaganda, PR, marketing, lying, and deceit for a lot longer than Apple Inc. have been around. Of course the strongest defenders of Apple Inc.'s scams and deceit are its most embarrassed and "overwhelmed by denial" victims.
...Euro-smugness! Yep, socialism trumps free market neliberal capitalism once more. Only problem is that since the European Central Bank was established, it's even more free market neliberal capitalist than the US Fed, as witnessed by our current insane austerity response to the recession, when rational economics would recommend Keynesian economic policy. Don't worry USA, we'll catch up with you soon! Maybe Greece and its new government can show us the way back to decent, humane socialist economic policy?
Yep, why can't IM clients and services just be compatible and interoperable? You know, like email, mobile phones, SMS, etc.? It'd solve so many problems and encourage developers and service providers to compete to give us better apps and services, instead of buying out "walled garden" startup after startup in order to gain market share (i.e. new pre-locked in customers).
... you know the rest of us, in the sane world, look upon this and think your gubbermint is batshit crazy, don't you? We'd laugh if they didn't have more guns, bombs, tanks, boats, and war planes than the rest of the world combined. They're going to sit back and do nothing as they watch millions of people get displaced and die of extreme weather events and starvation.
Scientists who become recognizable have a chance and perhaps even a responsibility, which they have often exploited, to promote science literacy, combat scientific nonsense, motivate young people, and steer public policy discussions toward sound decision making wherever they can.
Some people don't think that singling out one race or religion for intensive criticism, mischaracterisation, villification, etc. is prejudiced and they'll argue till the end of the world for their right to incite racial and/or religious hatred.
That said, Charlie Hebdo did sack an employee for being antisemitic once. I guess they're OK with racist Arab stereotypes and Islamaphobia though.
Yep, for the lowest bidder, cutting corners just means more profit. The executives don't have to pay back the money they've made and they don't face any real accountability. The worst that can happen is that the subcontractor company goes bankrupt and the executives make up a new company and move on to the next disaster waiting to happen. "Heads I win, tails you lose."
Does this sound like stop and frisk to anyone? But more like going to a place and stopping and frisking everyone there and without probable cause and searching not just your pockets but your conversations with people who aren't there and without them knowing that it's happened? Looks like we need more secure phone systems. How about requiring that cell towers have signed encryption keys? How easy would it be for the cops to force telecoms to hand over the keys?
...was supposed to be the US' economic saviour after WWII. It worked for a while but then grew into what we have now. Some people even believe we can save our environment through consumerism. To sum up some of the comments so far:
Consumer items are not built to last longer than their warranty so that consumers continue to buy more, more frequently.
Consumer items have become more delicate and more complicated over time and so easier to break and harder to fix.
Teaching and/or encouraging people to "make do and mend" is in direct contradiction to consumerism and is unlikely to be tolerated.
If too many people stop buying things, the economy will suffer.
The world, its chemistry, its physical nature, is changing dramatically because we measure and value our success according to how quickly we can dig stuff out of the ground and turn it into pollution.
...I thought the Catholic church were supposed to be waiting in eager anticipation of armageddon. Are they trying to delay it now? What's going on in theocracy land?
The Telegraph reports, "GCHQ has lost track of some of the most prolific investigative journalists and has had to abort surveillance on others after Edward Snowden revealed their tactics... The spy agency has suffered "significant" damage in its ability to investigative journalists following the exposes by the former CIA contractor. Intelligence officers are now blind to more than a quarter of the activities of the UK's most prolific investigative journalists after they changed their communications methods in the wake of the Snowden leaks. One major publication has been able to continue flooding the UK with Class A news unimpeded for the last year after changing their operations. More intense tracking of others has either been abandoned or not started because of fears the tactics are now too easy to spot and will force the journalists to "go dark" and be lost sight of completely."
Are perhaps you could think of more entertaining and creative substitutes for "serious criminals" in this non-story?
An alternative interpretation of the data: Reading for four hours and taking blood samples every hour disrupted the subjects' sleep but after a few days, they got used to it (while they were reading paper-based text). This study doesn't control for other variables and establish and correlation, let alone a cause-effect relationship. And a sample size of n12, seriously? I'll wait for a decently designed study to come out. Anyone know of any?
Or was he just shrewd enough to cultivate that impression so that people would feel that he wouldn't just compose for the love of it and not pay him for his work? Nobody gets that good without a real love of the medium and huge amounts of time, effort, dilligence, and tenacity.
Then why don't they build jet airplanes or nuclear power plants?
Because they lack the ability to cooperate and coordinate between themselves to the same degree that humans can. Think of them as like American congressmen.
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You're assuming that computer driven cars can actually work in the real world on real streets with real drivers, pedestrians, unforeseen obstacles, etc. I doubt "driverless cars" will be replacing taxis, buses, and delivery vehicles any time soon. Plus, it'd just be too tempting for some mischievous individuals to set up driverless car traps that take advantage of bugs/faults in their navigation algorithms. It could make a great art project/youtube video.
They may be aiming for Idiocracy but it looks like they're headed towards something closer to Scarfolk: http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
Ah, so the "Idiot's Guide to..." has made its way onto the web. Except for, in this instance, without any editorial or quality control. I bet most of the semi-decent courses are posted there free for promotional purposes, either for anyone who might be interested in attending their educational organisation, e.g. college or university, or for using a particular product, e.g. high-end media production software and/or hardware. There's nothing new here and it simply encourages the typical Silicon Valley business model of make your content producers compete with each other in a race to the bottom and make the real profits for yourself from hosting, administering, and promoting the system... you know, by pushing stories into media outlets about how it's going to revolutionise education. Here's a great video about the history of new media technologies in education, "This Will Revolutionize Education": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Loads of schools have bought and are buying iPads without much of an idea of what they're going to use them for, let alone a coherent educational plan. The end result? Expensive, distracting toys that have little, if any, demonstrable effects on learning outcomes in K-12 education. Then there's stories like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01... Developmental psychologists are less than enamoured of shiny, techy internet gadgets in classrooms and children's pockets.
Yes, re: "Apple has been very visionary in creating and expanding significant new consumer electronics categories," -- They slipped that one in hoping nobody would actually think about it. What have Apple Inc. created?
First PC? Olivetti.
First laptop? IBM.
First portable digital media player? Kane Kramer (IXI).
First tablet computer? Samsung's GRiDPad.
First smartphone? Nokia.
What else do Apple sell? What about their infamous reality distortion field? I think we've had propaganda, PR, marketing, lying, and deceit for a lot longer than Apple Inc. have been around. Of course the strongest defenders of Apple Inc.'s scams and deceit are its most embarrassed and "overwhelmed by denial" victims.
...Euro-smugness! Yep, socialism trumps free market neliberal capitalism once more. Only problem is that since the European Central Bank was established, it's even more free market neliberal capitalist than the US Fed, as witnessed by our current insane austerity response to the recession, when rational economics would recommend Keynesian economic policy. Don't worry USA, we'll catch up with you soon! Maybe Greece and its new government can show us the way back to decent, humane socialist economic policy?
Do you think congress should vote on it?
Yep, why can't IM clients and services just be compatible and interoperable? You know, like email, mobile phones, SMS, etc.? It'd solve so many problems and encourage developers and service providers to compete to give us better apps and services, instead of buying out "walled garden" startup after startup in order to gain market share (i.e. new pre-locked in customers).
... you know the rest of us, in the sane world, look upon this and think your gubbermint is batshit crazy, don't you? We'd laugh if they didn't have more guns, bombs, tanks, boats, and war planes than the rest of the world combined. They're going to sit back and do nothing as they watch millions of people get displaced and die of extreme weather events and starvation.
Scientists who become recognizable have a chance and perhaps even a responsibility, which they have often exploited, to promote science literacy, combat scientific nonsense, motivate young people, and steer public policy discussions toward sound decision making wherever they can.
Oh please 'Murica, please listen to these people!
Some people don't think that singling out one race or religion for intensive criticism, mischaracterisation, villification, etc. is prejudiced and they'll argue till the end of the world for their right to incite racial and/or religious hatred.
That said, Charlie Hebdo did sack an employee for being antisemitic once. I guess they're OK with racist Arab stereotypes and Islamaphobia though.
Yep, for the lowest bidder, cutting corners just means more profit. The executives don't have to pay back the money they've made and they don't face any real accountability. The worst that can happen is that the subcontractor company goes bankrupt and the executives make up a new company and move on to the next disaster waiting to happen. "Heads I win, tails you lose."
Does this sound like stop and frisk to anyone? But more like going to a place and stopping and frisking everyone there and without probable cause and searching not just your pockets but your conversations with people who aren't there and without them knowing that it's happened? Looks like we need more secure phone systems. How about requiring that cell towers have signed encryption keys? How easy would it be for the cops to force telecoms to hand over the keys?
Does Mars Inc. sell any candy bars with a high total cocoa content?
...everyone's Indian really. Here's some examples from British sitcom, Goodness Gracious Me!: https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Does this article indicate that we've reached peak drone hype yet? Gun hype has: Kitchen gun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...was supposed to be the US' economic saviour after WWII. It worked for a while but then grew into what we have now. Some people even believe we can save our environment through consumerism. To sum up some of the comments so far:
Consumer items are not built to last longer than their warranty so that consumers continue to buy more, more frequently.
Consumer items have become more delicate and more complicated over time and so easier to break and harder to fix.
Teaching and/or encouraging people to "make do and mend" is in direct contradiction to consumerism and is unlikely to be tolerated.
If too many people stop buying things, the economy will suffer.
The world, its chemistry, its physical nature, is changing dramatically because we measure and value our success according to how quickly we can dig stuff out of the ground and turn it into pollution.
...I thought the Catholic church were supposed to be waiting in eager anticipation of armageddon. Are they trying to delay it now? What's going on in theocracy land?
The Telegraph reports, "GCHQ has lost track of some of the most prolific investigative journalists and has had to abort surveillance on others after Edward Snowden revealed their tactics ... The spy agency has suffered "significant" damage in its ability to investigative journalists following the exposes by the former CIA contractor. Intelligence officers are now blind to more than a quarter of the activities of the UK's most prolific investigative journalists after they changed their communications methods in the wake of the Snowden leaks. One major publication has been able to continue flooding the UK with Class A news unimpeded for the last year after changing their operations. More intense tracking of others has either been abandoned or not started because of fears the tactics are now too easy to spot and will force the journalists to "go dark" and be lost sight of completely."
Are perhaps you could think of more entertaining and creative substitutes for "serious criminals" in this non-story?
An alternative interpretation of the data: Reading for four hours and taking blood samples every hour disrupted the subjects' sleep but after a few days, they got used to it (while they were reading paper-based text). This study doesn't control for other variables and establish and correlation, let alone a cause-effect relationship. And a sample size of n12, seriously? I'll wait for a decently designed study to come out. Anyone know of any?
NSF budget = ~$7Bn, Cosmetics industry buget = ~$170Bn
I'll put my money and sense of humour on preventing hair loss, prolonging erections, and "leaving your skin feeling visibly younger." :P
The argument is that we have fewer civil liberties because the MPAA exists.
Or was he just shrewd enough to cultivate that impression so that people would feel that he wouldn't just compose for the love of it and not pay him for his work? Nobody gets that good without a real love of the medium and huge amounts of time, effort, dilligence, and tenacity.
Then why don't they build jet airplanes or nuclear power plants?
Because they lack the ability to cooperate and coordinate between themselves to the same degree that humans can. Think of them as like American congressmen.
It's got electrolytes!