Probably only the ones that have their sources of energy exploding... oh wait, there's a lot of suns exploding, so it seems most Galaxies were made by Samsung...
if only to more easily convince his people to use domestic IT products rather than the US-made stuff (which contains backdoors for at least the US government agencies and backdoors for some far-east agencies which were added by the manufacturers who actually produced the hardware).
would be like in the good old times, when criminals (and people considered inconvenient to have around for whatever other reason) were shipped from GB to Australia.
There are plenty of more dangerous, more arduous, more humiliating jobs out there - even ones that require touching the bodies and excretions of other people. And most of them are paid much lower than prostitution. I for one am happy that where I live, prostitution is a legal job, involving taxation and social security insurance like every other job.
... managed to survive on the transport market due to their excessive fuel consumption and cost, they want to make us believe that "travelling to Mars" will become big business? Sorry, but that's clearly not going to happen. Yes, a few rich people will pay whatever price for getting to Mars, but clearly not enough to sustain a regular flight schedule.
... these days to some company else? Gone are the days when any kind of service was provided by just one company, who was then undoubtly responsible for however good or bad a service was. Today, there is an endless chain of suppliers, sub-contractors, infrastructure providers, whom to assign blame to, so ultimately no one feels responsible, everybody has an excuse, and whatever SLA exists, it's not worth the paper it's written on.
Remember how Samsung chickened out of the OLED TV market, claiming that those would just be "too expensive" to become a market success? Well, turned out that LG was capable of building and selling OLED TVs at reasonable prices.
So now they are using the same kind of argument to stop their VR ambitions. Their competitors will love it.
Seems that Samsung's company strategy today is "Innovation just cost us money!"
Actually, "Nazi Germany" wasn't quite as uptight with regards to nudity as today's USA is - on 10th July 1942, for example, the Nazi regime generally allowed naked bathing in open waters in a new "Reichsverordnung".
I present to you a formidable, all-new computer: An apple tree, with one ripe apple so loose it will fall off the tree soon.
You say you want proof that this new computer is superior to all classical computers? Here you go: I admit that my apple tree computer is optimized to solve a certain class of problems. It's optimized to simulate the behaviour of an apple falling down a tree - with insane precision, down to the level of considering even the smallest effects of quantum mechanics, gravity waves and neutrinos passing through the apple. Now go simulate that on your classical computer! And no cheating/simplification: You have to precisely factor in all those aspects of real physics as well!
You will find that my apple tree computer is finished solving the task while your Cray supercomputer is still busy calculating the bonding forces of the gluons and the quarks in the first few protons of your simulated apple! So my computer is a gazillion times faster than any classical computer at solving problem(s)!
This is how D-Wave advertises their hardware. They built some physical contraption resembling an analog computer and then claim that any classical computer is much slower, because the only task they are comparing it with is trying to simulate that very contraption they built.
Just marketing bullshit, which is so far from any useful advancement in technology.
TFA does not say much... as, for example, an "explosion" of what kind that was supposed to be. There aren't so many components usually built into washing machines that could "explode" on their own, with nobody adding highly energetic substances to the mix.
Neither the Slashdot summary nor TFA contains a URL to where we can try this now rolled out new translator. Does this imply it's already used by translate.google.com? If so, I didn't notice any improvements, yet.
... from a once great high-tech manufacturer whose products were expensive, but worth it, to an embarrasing ink seller with the behaviour of a shady used-cars dealer.
Those days when I was happily using HP calculators and an HP workstation and a DeskJet 500 printer that could print thousands of pages on refills from a 1l bottle of Pelikan ink... now they seem as far behind as Egypt building the pyramids. Buying HP? I'd rather burn my money to make ink from the ashes myself.
"of good benefit to their end user"... are you trying to make a joke, are you a paid lobbyist, or just incredibly naive? You probably never worked for any company of significant size that offers "web services" or "IoT" of any kind. Because if you had, you'd know that the first three topics on the goal priority lists of such companies are (1) make a profit, (2) make more profit and (3) maximize profit. A topic "good benefit to their end user" either doesn't exist on that list, or might be somewhere like prioritiy (387), right behind (386) "give Sanjay and his friends at our overseas data mining contractor an opportunity for having a good laugh at US masturbation habits".
Indeed, using Intel CPUs and MicroSoft software, you can be sure that your data is "secure" only in the sense of being backed up by all kinds of government agencies using the backdoors built into these CPUs and Windows.
If you're actually concerned about your 6 year old watching pornography on a phone, then that phone going off in flames is probably just what you need to scare your child away from porn by telling him it was the flames of hell, to where all sinners go, which were scorching the phone. And if you're less of a zealot, you can still tell him them chicks were just too hot for the phone to handle.
Or use as a grenade substitute when ambushed by a wild horde. Or use it to make a fire in your cave shelter in the Himalayas - also scares off the Yeti!
It's difficult to point out one paper in particular, as of course any animal researcher is somewhat biased towards the species he's most aquainted with. But I think papers like http://web.archive.org/web/201... really make some good points.
The intelligence of dolphins has been subject to myth for so long that there are studies galore on this topic. And by any reasonable standard, dolphins are less intelligent than e.g. crows. Guess we'll continue to hear from wanna-be Dr. Doolittles, nevertheless, time and again.
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Probably only the ones that have their sources of energy exploding... oh wait, there's a lot of suns exploding, so it seems most Galaxies were made by Samsung...
... see https://translate.google.com/t... ;-)
if only to more easily convince his people to use domestic IT products rather than the US-made stuff (which contains backdoors for at least the US government agencies and backdoors for some far-east agencies which were added by the manufacturers who actually produced the hardware).
would be like in the good old times, when criminals (and people considered inconvenient to have around for whatever other reason) were shipped from GB to Australia.
There are plenty of more dangerous, more arduous, more humiliating jobs out there - even ones that require touching the bodies and excretions of other people. And most of them are paid much lower than prostitution. I for one am happy that where I live, prostitution is a legal job, involving taxation and social security insurance like every other job.
By removing them from her doomed company, hinting them to pursue a career where there's still hope and opportunity?
So they finally ended pretending that Oculus is still that "hip little startup trying to make the world a better place by building cool VR-stuff"?
... managed to survive on the transport market due to their excessive fuel consumption and cost, they want to make us believe that "travelling to Mars" will become big business? Sorry, but that's clearly not going to happen. Yes, a few rich people will pay whatever price for getting to Mars, but clearly not enough to sustain a regular flight schedule.
... these days to some company else? Gone are the days when any kind of service was provided by just one company, who was then undoubtly responsible for however good or bad a service was. Today, there is an endless chain of suppliers, sub-contractors, infrastructure providers, whom to assign blame to, so ultimately no one feels responsible, everybody has an excuse, and whatever SLA exists, it's not worth the paper it's written on.
Remember how Samsung chickened out of the OLED TV market, claiming that those would just be "too expensive" to become a market success? Well, turned out that LG was capable of building and selling OLED TVs at reasonable prices.
So now they are using the same kind of argument to stop their VR ambitions. Their competitors will love it.
Seems that Samsung's company strategy today is "Innovation just cost us money!"
Actually, "Nazi Germany" wasn't quite as uptight with regards to nudity as today's USA is - on 10th July 1942, for example, the Nazi regime generally allowed naked bathing in open waters in a new "Reichsverordnung".
I present to you a formidable, all-new computer: An apple tree, with one ripe apple so loose it will fall off the tree soon.
You say you want proof that this new computer is superior to all classical computers? Here you go: I admit that my apple tree computer is optimized to solve a certain class of problems. It's optimized to simulate the behaviour of an apple falling down a tree - with insane precision, down to the level of considering even the smallest effects of quantum mechanics, gravity waves and neutrinos passing through the apple. Now go simulate that on your classical computer! And no cheating/simplification: You have to precisely factor in all those aspects of real physics as well!
You will find that my apple tree computer is finished solving the task while your Cray supercomputer is still busy calculating the bonding forces of the gluons and the quarks in the first few protons of your simulated apple! So my computer is a gazillion times faster than any classical computer at solving problem(s)!
This is how D-Wave advertises their hardware. They built some physical contraption resembling an analog computer and then claim that any classical computer is much slower, because the only task they are comparing it with is trying to simulate that very contraption they built.
Just marketing bullshit, which is so far from any useful advancement in technology.
No, only Chuck Norris can compute fast enough to run Windows at decent speed.
TFA does not say much... as, for example, an "explosion" of what kind that was supposed to be. There aren't so many components usually built into washing machines that could "explode" on their own, with nobody adding highly energetic substances to the mix.
Neither the Slashdot summary nor TFA contains a URL to where we can try this now rolled out new translator. Does this imply it's already used by translate.google.com? If so, I didn't notice any improvements, yet.
I've personally experienced 10GbaseT running fine over 50m of older Cat5e cabling. A fallback to 5G is really only required under bad circumstances.
... from a once great high-tech manufacturer whose products were expensive, but worth it, to an embarrasing ink seller with the behaviour of a shady used-cars dealer. Those days when I was happily using HP calculators and an HP workstation and a DeskJet 500 printer that could print thousands of pages on refills from a 1l bottle of Pelikan ink... now they seem as far behind as Egypt building the pyramids. Buying HP? I'd rather burn my money to make ink from the ashes myself.
And isn't that going to be reverted after the BREXIT? ;-)
"of good benefit to their end user" ... are you trying to make a joke, are you a paid lobbyist, or just incredibly naive? You probably never worked for any company of significant size that offers "web services" or "IoT" of any kind. Because if you had, you'd know that the first three topics on the goal priority lists of such companies are (1) make a profit, (2) make more profit and (3) maximize profit. A topic "good benefit to their end user" either doesn't exist on that list, or might be somewhere like prioritiy (387), right behind (386) "give Sanjay and his friends at our overseas data mining contractor an opportunity for having a good laugh at US masturbation habits".
Indeed, using Intel CPUs and MicroSoft software, you can be sure that your data is "secure" only in the sense of being backed up by all kinds of government agencies using the backdoors built into these CPUs and Windows.
If you're actually concerned about your 6 year old watching pornography on a phone, then that phone going off in flames is probably just what you need to scare your child away from porn by telling him it was the flames of hell, to where all sinners go, which were scorching the phone. And if you're less of a zealot, you can still tell him them chicks were just too hot for the phone to handle.
Or use as a grenade substitute when ambushed by a wild horde. Or use it to make a fire in your cave shelter in the Himalayas - also scares off the Yeti!
... where are the photoshop artists when you need them to create suicide-bomber pictures with belts made of Note 7s?
It's difficult to point out one paper in particular, as of course any animal researcher is somewhat biased towards the species he's most aquainted with. But I think papers like http://web.archive.org/web/201... really make some good points.
The intelligence of dolphins has been subject to myth for so long that there are studies galore on this topic. And by any reasonable standard, dolphins are less intelligent than e.g. crows. Guess we'll continue to hear from wanna-be Dr. Doolittles, nevertheless, time and again.