I've recently toyed around with "Tilt Brush" in VR using a Vive, and while it might be not as boring as the "Job Simulator", it became pretty boring after 15 minutes or so. Doing "Tilt Brush" for 25 hours sounds dangerous to your mental health - not because of VR!
... than Google Maps. OpenStreetMap has way more details and much more up-to-date information - the only thing it doesn't have is, of course, sattelite images - but I hardly need those to navigate.
The biggest plus of OpenStreeMap of course is that I can use it completely offline, and I don't have to share my life with Alphabet, the data Kraken company.
- as the summary states itself, the (long ago) planned International Space Station was much more expensive than this new power plant. And the ISS is more like "one object" than the new power plant is.
They probably just publish the list of obsolete backdoors they sneaked into the code base earlier. Meanwhile using later, unpublished exploits to spy on you and me.
Hitchbot didn't even contain anything valuable, and still was vandalized quickly once travelling on US soil:
http://www.people.com/article/...
And the vandalism being taped on video didn't mean anyone bothered to catch the bad guy.
Even if Microsoft has some decent technology, they're definitely losing on the marketing front, they are making themselves look like dancing monkey cousins.
Only in this case the "parents" (Microsoft, Google) don't want to invest in the education of their "children", so they leave teaching to anonymous psychopaths on the Web. It's as if rich parents would send their 3 years old children to a juke joint in shanty town - instead of kindergarten.
Yeah, just like children learning from religion. Do Google's and MicroSofts AIs yet correctly identify images of the flat earth disc and images of those dinosaur bones god placed into the soil 6000 years ago? Will have to teach them...
Even more probable than facing robbery is that outside of enclosed hysterical-cry-baby-safe-space-campuses, such delivery drones will face vandalism. Any bad mooded teenager can take such a drone out by a simple kick. And unlike delivery boys, which might kick back or at least stand up again, the drone will just lay there on its side until somebody comes to pick it up.
I have worked in places with many different telephone systems, from Siemens, Alcatel, Bosch etc. - mostly ones already 10+ years old. They all had their pro's and con's. But none of that prepared me for the horror of working with a Mitel IP phone on my desk. Its user interface must have been invented by apes on LSD, even the most simple of functions (like looking up a number in the phone book) take dozens of key presses, every function is incoherently mapped to arbitrary keys (it's not like you could even expect that the same key is used to leave a menu or get you back into the "home" menu). The phone takes about a minute(!) to boot, then crashes/reboots about once per day without any specific trigger (and it's not a single one that does - the ones of my colleagues, too). Extra features cost a fortune - the Bluetooth module for example is more expensive than a good smartphone that of course contains Bluetooth. And the extra modules comes with configuration in yet another completely counter-intuitive menu structure, and of course the pairing to Bluetooth headsets is unstable like crazy.
So I can only hope this fusion will somehow result in bankruptcy of the company and a slow, horrible death for all those who turned Mitel IP phones into the instruments of torture they are.
If only Deutsche Bank was so picky about whom to do business with when it's about VIPs from totalitarian countries, companies evading taxes etc. - but no, they only follow some en vogue PC rules when it's about people's freedom to use either toilet booth. It would be funny if it didn't shed a light on how absolutely insignificant discussions are blown up to create the illusion that "companies care about people's opinion", while they of course do not in the least.
Given the epidemic negligence regarding IT security everywhere in the world, you can expect things like this to happen in every country. People/companies who maintain your data will rather save 10 cents of money and 10 minutes of effort going on with insecure vs. secure solutions. Thus, the only data that remains safe is the data that you never entered or transmitted to anyone.
... the market in 2016 or 2017. Do you remember the hype when articles claimed there soon would be no more need for classical DRAM because of that magic new technology of persistent memory?
Such search the Google Play Store to yield numerous hits of Apps that convey instructions like: "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates” (Koran 47:4).
The problem I have with this news is that there is no mention of any particular content of this App that the ban is reasoned with. If Google was imposing consistent rules to ban religious fundamentalism - fine with me. Start banning the historic scriptures of basically every large religion, all of which are clearly calling for violence against non-believers of their faith. Yet, there are dozens of Apps which convey, for example, hate messages like: "[W]hen the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance of them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord . . . (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9)." or “[H]e that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
Whether the Taliban actually "tolerated & protected terrorists" while they were in power in Afghanistan is still a matter of dispute. Even western sources wrote that the Taliban indicated willingness to prosecute Osama & friends, but under their jurisdiction. The US insisted that they had to hand over the suspects to the US immediately, long before there was evidence presented connecting Osama to the 9/11 acts of terror. The Taliban standpoint on the terror suspects looked like a welcome pretense to quickly start a war against this "no-longer-our-bad-guys" group - which didn't even result in capturing Osama, who took shelter in yet another of those "friend"-countries ruled by religious fundamentalists.
I sure don't sympathize with the Taliban, and your assertion might be right that if I relocated to a Taliban-ruled region without keeping my opinions to myself I would end under the sword of some deathsman. But that wouldn't be any different in Saudi Arabia. So it seems arbitrary to me why a "Taliban App" would be defined "evil" per se, while Apps from other medieval factions are "ok".
Last time I looked, the Taliban were a political faction in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Back when they conquered Kabul - after ~20 years of continous war between local militia - they were welcome by the population as bringers of peace. Sure, their medieval opinions and the the many restrictions they imposed on individual freedom decreased their popularity in the years to follow, but their rule was not really unlike that of "US friends" like Saudi Arabia.
The Taliban are not "Al Quaida" or "ISIS", they actually were supported for years financially and by delivering weapons from the US. I understand that later on, the US disliked them because of differences on the handling of terror suspects based in Afghanistan. But what part of this actually reasoning to remove an App or theirs? If preaching a radical interpretation of Islam is "hate speech", I suppose all Apps published by Saudi Arabia etc. are banned, too? Or if having been an US-opponent in some war is reason enough for App bans, all Japanese, Italian and German Apps are banned, too?
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I've recently toyed around with "Tilt Brush" in VR using a Vive, and while it might be not as boring as the "Job Simulator", it became pretty boring after 15 minutes or so. Doing "Tilt Brush" for 25 hours sounds dangerous to your mental health - not because of VR!
... than Google Maps. OpenStreetMap has way more details and much more up-to-date information - the only thing it doesn't have is, of course, sattelite images - but I hardly need those to navigate. The biggest plus of OpenStreeMap of course is that I can use it completely offline, and I don't have to share my life with Alphabet, the data Kraken company.
- as the summary states itself, the (long ago) planned International Space Station was much more expensive than this new power plant. And the ISS is more like "one object" than the new power plant is.
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... famous "EyePhone 2.0".
They probably just publish the list of obsolete backdoors they sneaked into the code base earlier. Meanwhile using later, unpublished exploits to spy on you and me.
they sent one of their Weasels after "US Calls Switzerland An Internet Piracy Haven" (in earlier news today) to sabotage this Swiss research facility.
No, that was still not "supersonic".
Hitchbot didn't even contain anything valuable, and still was vandalized quickly once travelling on US soil: http://www.people.com/article/... And the vandalism being taped on video didn't mean anyone bothered to catch the bad guy.
such data privacy laws - see John Oliver's recent episode on Credit Reports in the US. That's what happenes if 1 in 20 humans is associated with wrong, outdated information by corporations.
Even if Microsoft has some decent technology, they're definitely losing on the marketing front, they are making themselves look like dancing monkey cousins.
That's just because they are just that.
Only in this case the "parents" (Microsoft, Google) don't want to invest in the education of their "children", so they leave teaching to anonymous psychopaths on the Web. It's as if rich parents would send their 3 years old children to a juke joint in shanty town - instead of kindergarten.
Yeah, just like children learning from religion. Do Google's and MicroSofts AIs yet correctly identify images of the flat earth disc and images of those dinosaur bones god placed into the soil 6000 years ago? Will have to teach them...
Indeed, deliveries have never been robbed from "moving things" that cannot fight back, run away, or at least stand up again after being tipped over.
Even more probable than facing robbery is that outside of enclosed hysterical-cry-baby-safe-space-campuses, such delivery drones will face vandalism. Any bad mooded teenager can take such a drone out by a simple kick. And unlike delivery boys, which might kick back or at least stand up again, the drone will just lay there on its side until somebody comes to pick it up.
I have worked in places with many different telephone systems, from Siemens, Alcatel, Bosch etc. - mostly ones already 10+ years old. They all had their pro's and con's. But none of that prepared me for the horror of working with a Mitel IP phone on my desk. Its user interface must have been invented by apes on LSD, even the most simple of functions (like looking up a number in the phone book) take dozens of key presses, every function is incoherently mapped to arbitrary keys (it's not like you could even expect that the same key is used to leave a menu or get you back into the "home" menu). The phone takes about a minute(!) to boot, then crashes/reboots about once per day without any specific trigger (and it's not a single one that does - the ones of my colleagues, too). Extra features cost a fortune - the Bluetooth module for example is more expensive than a good smartphone that of course contains Bluetooth. And the extra modules comes with configuration in yet another completely counter-intuitive menu structure, and of course the pairing to Bluetooth headsets is unstable like crazy.
So I can only hope this fusion will somehow result in bankruptcy of the company and a slow, horrible death for all those who turned Mitel IP phones into the instruments of torture they are.
If only Deutsche Bank was so picky about whom to do business with when it's about VIPs from totalitarian countries, companies evading taxes etc. - but no, they only follow some en vogue PC rules when it's about people's freedom to use either toilet booth. It would be funny if it didn't shed a light on how absolutely insignificant discussions are blown up to create the illusion that "companies care about people's opinion", while they of course do not in the least.
Given the epidemic negligence regarding IT security everywhere in the world, you can expect things like this to happen in every country. People/companies who maintain your data will rather save 10 cents of money and 10 minutes of effort going on with insecure vs. secure solutions. Thus, the only data that remains safe is the data that you never entered or transmitted to anyone.
... the market in 2016 or 2017. Do you remember the hype when articles claimed there soon would be no more need for classical DRAM because of that magic new technology of persistent memory?
Saudi Arabia decapitated numerous people in its recent history. Check out this.
Such search the Google Play Store to yield numerous hits of Apps that convey instructions like: "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates” (Koran 47:4).
The problem I have with this news is that there is no mention of any particular content of this App that the ban is reasoned with. If Google was imposing consistent rules to ban religious fundamentalism - fine with me. Start banning the historic scriptures of basically every large religion, all of which are clearly calling for violence against non-believers of their faith. Yet, there are dozens of Apps which convey, for example, hate messages like: "[W]hen the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance of them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord . . . (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9)." or “[H]e that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
Whether the Taliban actually "tolerated & protected terrorists" while they were in power in Afghanistan is still a matter of dispute. Even western sources wrote that the Taliban indicated willingness to prosecute Osama & friends, but under their jurisdiction. The US insisted that they had to hand over the suspects to the US immediately, long before there was evidence presented connecting Osama to the 9/11 acts of terror. The Taliban standpoint on the terror suspects looked like a welcome pretense to quickly start a war against this "no-longer-our-bad-guys" group - which didn't even result in capturing Osama, who took shelter in yet another of those "friend"-countries ruled by religious fundamentalists.
I sure don't sympathize with the Taliban, and your assertion might be right that if I relocated to a Taliban-ruled region without keeping my opinions to myself I would end under the sword of some deathsman. But that wouldn't be any different in Saudi Arabia. So it seems arbitrary to me why a "Taliban App" would be defined "evil" per se, while Apps from other medieval factions are "ok".
Last time I looked, the Taliban were a political faction in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Back when they conquered Kabul - after ~20 years of continous war between local militia - they were welcome by the population as bringers of peace. Sure, their medieval opinions and the the many restrictions they imposed on individual freedom decreased their popularity in the years to follow, but their rule was not really unlike that of "US friends" like Saudi Arabia.
The Taliban are not "Al Quaida" or "ISIS", they actually were supported for years financially and by delivering weapons from the US. I understand that later on, the US disliked them because of differences on the handling of terror suspects based in Afghanistan. But what part of this actually reasoning to remove an App or theirs? If preaching a radical interpretation of Islam is "hate speech", I suppose all Apps published by Saudi Arabia etc. are banned, too? Or if having been an US-opponent in some war is reason enough for App bans, all Japanese, Italian and German Apps are banned, too?