Anybody who's studied physics knows there's a lot of equations that ring true in the world, and that's the point of the mainstream Intel/AMD processors. Any programmer knows there's no limits to the number of functions you can write in C or VB, and languages like PHP place their own functions on top of a base of C, which can be compiled in to processor-specific code.
So, a chip that can do everything in Excel or Mathmatica would be the true General Purpose Processor. Intel Core i7 chips are close to getting there compared to a Pentium or Celeron chip. A RISC (Reduced Instrction Set Computing) chip by definition only knows the functions defined, and therefore can be fast at doing just that.
So, the true General Purpose Computing chip doesn't exist yet, but they're working on it!
Watson won on Jeopardy! by buzzing at the first moment possible (when Alex finished reading the "answer") whether or not it knew the answer, and then using the seven seconds allotted to do the lookup. That's a tactic humans just don't do, and it was a team of researchers copying the Google results into a question not something the computers could finish on their own. Maybe Slashdot should program a Cover It Live room to play against it and Ken Jennings/Brad Rutter to see how this works.
Because the OTA network want to bundle their cable channels in the packages. There's no standalone rate for just the broadcast channels, you have to carry all the channels such as NBC wanting to also package in CNBC, MSNBC, NBCSN, etc.
They claimed they were giving an antenna chip to their subscribers. You can't just run a community antenna system without paying each station involved.
Aereo was an attempt to make local TV be receivable on cell phones and computers, but the copyright license wasn't negotiated properly. Why can't the iPhone have a ATSC chip inside it?
Cards don't make decisions, they just carry bits/numbers that represent an account, and it's up to the bank whether to allow or send an error back. If the customer promises to pay, then it works. If the customer calls to say they didn't authorize it, then it comes off the statement.
I'm not sure why this is news... if you swipe the mag stripe at an untrustworthy place, they can charge up to $999,999.99 too.... the system limit for a Visa/Mastercard transaction. What they're saying is a RFID chip gets to close to an scamming receiver they create a charge. Thing is, if a charge that big hits your account, your cell phone can scream "BIG TRANSACTION DETECTED!" and then you can have the charge reversed. Remember, we live in the era of "$0 liability"... as long as you can tell them it's wrong fast enough, you don't pay.
Seems like this guy is like a loser on an "Only the winner keeps their cash" game show. You can't block it from being shown... perform in public and suck and you've left a mark. How to get rid of that? Do something else successfully then claim what you did poorly isn't a good test of your talent.
You can get all three of the channels you mentioned bundled together with about 200 other channels delivered by satellite for about $40 a month... paying channel by channel just gets too many credit card fees on the way there.
Car-controlling tech requires that the people involved in the car, in other cars, or owning property near a road must be able to trust the vendor offering the service. Will Google have enough resources to drive every car?
As much as we love YouTube, its major mistake was not having a filter for copyrighted and non-meant-for-YouTube content, and as a result, the media empires get control of censoring of Google Search, and here's the challenge, can anybody make a pure-play Search Engine that doesn't get corrupted by other projects.
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Anybody who's studied physics knows there's a lot of equations that ring true in the world, and that's the point of the mainstream Intel/AMD processors. Any programmer knows there's no limits to the number of functions you can write in C or VB, and languages like PHP place their own functions on top of a base of C, which can be compiled in to processor-specific code.
So, a chip that can do everything in Excel or Mathmatica would be the true General Purpose Processor. Intel Core i7 chips are close to getting there compared to a Pentium or Celeron chip. A RISC (Reduced Instrction Set Computing) chip by definition only knows the functions defined, and therefore can be fast at doing just that.
So, the true General Purpose Computing chip doesn't exist yet, but they're working on it!
Watson won on Jeopardy! by buzzing at the first moment possible (when Alex finished reading the "answer") whether or not it knew the answer, and then using the seven seconds allotted to do the lookup. That's a tactic humans just don't do, and it was a team of researchers copying the Google results into a question not something the computers could finish on their own. Maybe Slashdot should program a Cover It Live room to play against it and Ken Jennings/Brad Rutter to see how this works.
Because the OTA network want to bundle their cable channels in the packages. There's no standalone rate for just the broadcast channels, you have to carry all the channels such as NBC wanting to also package in CNBC, MSNBC, NBCSN, etc.
ATSC-M/H has been around for a while now... why no implementation?
They claimed they were giving an antenna chip to their subscribers. You can't just run a community antenna system without paying each station involved.
I'm not understanding the joke... what were Aereo Chairs?
ATSC is the present way of moving content over the air to the public.
The point is, that's an "inversion"... it's cheaper to accept all the goodness of Prime than to pay full price for the device.
Aereo was an attempt to make local TV be receivable on cell phones and computers, but the copyright license wasn't negotiated properly. Why can't the iPhone have a ATSC chip inside it?
Amazon Prime costs $99 a year, and this device is $100 off if you have that...
Cards don't make decisions, they just carry bits/numbers that represent an account, and it's up to the bank whether to allow or send an error back. If the customer promises to pay, then it works. If the customer calls to say they didn't authorize it, then it comes off the statement.
I'm not sure why this is news... if you swipe the mag stripe at an untrustworthy place, they can charge up to $999,999.99 too.... the system limit for a Visa/Mastercard transaction. What they're saying is a RFID chip gets to close to an scamming receiver they create a charge. Thing is, if a charge that big hits your account, your cell phone can scream "BIG TRANSACTION DETECTED!" and then you can have the charge reversed. Remember, we live in the era of "$0 liability"... as long as you can tell them it's wrong fast enough, you don't pay.
Current TiVos are CableCARD devices. They've started leaving out the antenna in ports.
All of Hulu = $8, CBS alone equals $5.99... CNBC/CNBC World is similarly priced.
Seems like this guy is like a loser on an "Only the winner keeps their cash" game show. You can't block it from being shown... perform in public and suck and you've left a mark. How to get rid of that? Do something else successfully then claim what you did poorly isn't a good test of your talent.
You can get all three of the channels you mentioned bundled together with about 200 other channels delivered by satellite for about $40 a month... paying channel by channel just gets too many credit card fees on the way there.
Car-controlling tech requires that the people involved in the car, in other cars, or owning property near a road must be able to trust the vendor offering the service. Will Google have enough resources to drive every car?
Autodriving is a protection against accidents caused by human error.
RTFA and the mention of 2013 makes no sense.
The expectation is in 2023... 2013 is an error and it's already happened.
Where's the number of layoffs that go with this Factory changeover?
As much as we love YouTube, its major mistake was not having a filter for copyrighted and non-meant-for-YouTube content, and as a result, the media empires get control of censoring of Google Search, and here's the challenge, can anybody make a pure-play Search Engine that doesn't get corrupted by other projects.
...from the right, Eric Schmidt. and From the Left, Julian Assange and in the Crossfire, the Slashdot users....
Not sure why you would want to do that... the airport can still track you by cameras.
Looks like Telsa's behind the 8 ball... there's only 3 states plus DC where they're unencumbered.