Going off the grid always sounds so complete and final, but couldn't they set up _some_ amount of solar panels that pump into raised storage tanks during the day, then irrigate with that water during the night? Seems like any power saved is good for the wallet (and, vs. diesel, good for the planet).
Changing your phone OS is the same as changing that on your computer: you have to replace software, reconfigure stuff, re-train yourself. It's a real effort, and so it's not surprising it takes more than one bum phone to make people go through it.
You could apply the same logic to the missing headphone jack on the iPhone 7. Many would argue it's a limitation rather than a feature, but not, apparently, a big enough limitation to make people switch.
A lot of Starcraft is how fast you can do things that don't require you to be particularly clever (clever is a large part of it, too, but time to execution is key, as is the ability to physically deal with multiple areas on the board). It seems very unfair if DeepMind can do things like see more of the board than its opponent's monitor and move/select faster than someone could with a keyboard and mouse.
Before we fall into minority hysteria over Facebook mind control, it's important to note that the control of news has been in upheaval since the rise of the internet. And if social media is bias, its biggest competitor--whoever's flashy headline reaches the top of search engine results--is even more so. The internet has given us the means to insulate our selves from detracting opinions at a level that rivals--or perhaps mirrors--the days of isolated, like-minded communities. It has also given us unprecedented ability to seek out news from a reliable, (reasonably) unbiased source.
If there to be any indignancy about the way that Facebook presents news, it should be directed at those who choose to use it for news, and hopefully take the form of encouraging them to do better.
In the near future, employees will protecting themselves from false (or otherwise) accusations by never personally getting involved in their own email correspondence.
Episodes of Star Trek were quite often, if not always, morality tales, and a relatively peaceful, morally advanced society provided a good backdrop for those tales. Star Wars was a tale of high adventure, and those sorts of stories are best served by heroes dealing with unseemly characters and places, by power-mad leaders, and by huge imbalances of power.
Doing a quick test of speed is fine, but what about ongoing records, automatically recorded? It's a very common story for actual internet speeds not to match advertised speeds (be that truth or exaggeration). While a single speed test might reveal underperformance, charting performance over time would be far more revealing.
Basically, by offering a $52/year subscription option, Wired isn't offering an option to ads. Even if they are sincere in their offer, their thinking strikes me as heckish outdated: we are no longer required to buy music by the album, so why would we subscribe to a whole magazine when we just want to read one of their articles?
I know micropayments haven't caught on, but this seems like a good place to give them another try. But first Wired would need to make an honest assessment of how much they make in per-reader/per-ad, and offer us equivalence.
I know this is a bit nit-picky, but it feels very un-Slashdot-like to not attribute an idea to its origins, which in the case of 'precrime' would be the Philip K. Dick story on which the aforementioned movie is based.
First of all, there is another, arguable equal, car service company out there (Lyft), but I guess they aren't sponsoring these sort of stories, the sort that say, hey, we had the exact same number of arrests in 2015 that we had back in 2009, so we're improving the world!*
Secondly, a quick glance at the spreadsheet really does make the numbers seem _way_ too small to qualify as , so why are we even seeing this post, or at least not seeing this post under the title, "Uber touts weak statistics in attempt to improve public opinion."
*do we have any reason to believe that drunk driving arrest are like the cost of goods, and should naturally have been higher in 2015 than 2009?
It seems like the first and most obvious step for the trucking industry is to replace trucks on the long haul only. For example, one driver might drive the truck to the highway onramp and send it on its way, then the truck drives itself for hours and hours to where it is at an offramp by another driver who takes it to its final destination.
Self-driving will certainly reduce the work available for truckers, but it will be a really long time before it eliminates them. Tractor trailers are not only difficult to maneuver, but often require very difficult maneuvers to park where they can be unloaded or unhitched. One way to look at it is that, in the near future, the computers will just be handling the boring part of the drive.
And automation does promise to reduce accidents significantly, and it can seriously reduce fuel use (and pollution) by allowing lines of trucks to coordinate their movements tightly, staying close to each other's slip streams. And self-driving trucks will certainly be more patient with each other--as in less likely to block traffic with a +2mph pass of another truck while going uphill--because they won't require such stringent timelines, which will make the roads a better place for everyone.
I technically qualify as an 'older developer,' though not old enough to embrace the title personally. On several occasions, I've worked with teams (as a contractor) made entirely of 'age-challenged' developers, and I'm always amazed to get kudos for saying things I consider obvious. Obvious, I suppose, because I have the experience the young'un do not, and experience does help.
While I'm sure that I have all sorts of limitations I'm not aware of, like I probably smell funny or maybe don't know why Euphoria is the most awesome programming language _ever_, or simply can't hold my own on the foosball table, I think that toddler teams should have at least one elder mentor onboard--someone whose been through the ringer a few times--because we do know stuff that you'll only realize you didn't know after we say it, and we tend to be pretty grounded, which helps if you're trying to do things like, I don't know, make money.
Just don't let us pick the music for the office hi-fi.
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Dirty 30 was a lot cooler before he turned 55...
The question Uber should be asking itself right now is, what will Levandowski be taking from them when he leaves...
Really, we have to sign off on all sorts of stuff to do business with them...
Going off the grid always sounds so complete and final, but couldn't they set up _some_ amount of solar panels that pump into raised storage tanks during the day, then irrigate with that water during the night? Seems like any power saved is good for the wallet (and, vs. diesel, good for the planet).
Changing your phone OS is the same as changing that on your computer: you have to replace software, reconfigure stuff, re-train yourself. It's a real effort, and so it's not surprising it takes more than one bum phone to make people go through it.
You could apply the same logic to the missing headphone jack on the iPhone 7. Many would argue it's a limitation rather than a feature, but not, apparently, a big enough limitation to make people switch.
Just don't try to charge your phone while you're listening to music...
...and in the Americas and Europe, they can use that space to put in a headphone jack! I hear they are extremely popular in those regions.
A lot of Starcraft is how fast you can do things that don't require you to be particularly clever (clever is a large part of it, too, but time to execution is key, as is the ability to physically deal with multiple areas on the board). It seems very unfair if DeepMind can do things like see more of the board than its opponent's monitor and move/select faster than someone could with a keyboard and mouse.
Creepy futurism buried in intense action:
https://www.amazon.com/Drift-Wars-Brett-James/dp/0985086424/
But that doesn't mean we won't get more than we bargained for.
Before we fall into minority hysteria over Facebook mind control, it's important to note that the control of news has been in upheaval since the rise of the internet. And if social media is bias, its biggest competitor--whoever's flashy headline reaches the top of search engine results--is even more so. The internet has given us the means to insulate our selves from detracting opinions at a level that rivals--or perhaps mirrors--the days of isolated, like-minded communities. It has also given us unprecedented ability to seek out news from a reliable, (reasonably) unbiased source.
If there to be any indignancy about the way that Facebook presents news, it should be directed at those who choose to use it for news, and hopefully take the form of encouraging them to do better.
Kilo-for-kilo, the cheapest hobby computer money can buy!
So someone blinked, but was it Netflix or Comcast?
In the near future, employees will protecting themselves from false (or otherwise) accusations by never personally getting involved in their own email correspondence.
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-is-using-ai-to-create-automatic-replies-in-gmail/
Episodes of Star Trek were quite often, if not always, morality tales, and a relatively peaceful, morally advanced society provided a good backdrop for those tales. Star Wars was a tale of high adventure, and those sorts of stories are best served by heroes dealing with unseemly characters and places, by power-mad leaders, and by huge imbalances of power.
Doing a quick test of speed is fine, but what about ongoing records, automatically recorded? It's a very common story for actual internet speeds not to match advertised speeds (be that truth or exaggeration). While a single speed test might reveal underperformance, charting performance over time would be far more revealing.
"Can we stall your car out with forced upgrades? Can we put ads on your dashboard?" asked Johnson. "We believe it can."
Basically, by offering a $52/year subscription option, Wired isn't offering an option to ads. Even if they are sincere in their offer, their thinking strikes me as heckish outdated: we are no longer required to buy music by the album, so why would we subscribe to a whole magazine when we just want to read one of their articles?
I know micropayments haven't caught on, but this seems like a good place to give them another try. But first Wired would need to make an honest assessment of how much they make in per-reader/per-ad, and offer us equivalence.
I know this is a bit nit-picky, but it feels very un-Slashdot-like to not attribute an idea to its origins, which in the case of 'precrime' would be the Philip K. Dick story on which the aforementioned movie is based.
Let us punish the children for, well, something...
I wish we still had physics like that today... these new-fangled ones just don't coalesce like they used to.
First of all, there is another, arguable equal, car service company out there (Lyft), but I guess they aren't sponsoring these sort of stories, the sort that say, hey, we had the exact same number of arrests in 2015 that we had back in 2009, so we're improving the world!*
Secondly, a quick glance at the spreadsheet really does make the numbers seem _way_ too small to qualify as , so why are we even seeing this post, or at least not seeing this post under the title, "Uber touts weak statistics in attempt to improve public opinion."
*do we have any reason to believe that drunk driving arrest are like the cost of goods, and should naturally have been higher in 2015 than 2009?
It seems like the first and most obvious step for the trucking industry is to replace trucks on the long haul only. For example, one driver might drive the truck to the highway onramp and send it on its way, then the truck drives itself for hours and hours to where it is at an offramp by another driver who takes it to its final destination.
Self-driving will certainly reduce the work available for truckers, but it will be a really long time before it eliminates them. Tractor trailers are not only difficult to maneuver, but often require very difficult maneuvers to park where they can be unloaded or unhitched. One way to look at it is that, in the near future, the computers will just be handling the boring part of the drive.
And automation does promise to reduce accidents significantly, and it can seriously reduce fuel use (and pollution) by allowing lines of trucks to coordinate their movements tightly, staying close to each other's slip streams. And self-driving trucks will certainly be more patient with each other--as in less likely to block traffic with a +2mph pass of another truck while going uphill--because they won't require such stringent timelines, which will make the roads a better place for everyone.
They ... don't have modern college training in the latest security threats and program hacking methods.
Out of curiosity, where did your college professors fall on the age scale?
I technically qualify as an 'older developer,' though not old enough to embrace the title personally. On several occasions, I've worked with teams (as a contractor) made entirely of 'age-challenged' developers, and I'm always amazed to get kudos for saying things I consider obvious. Obvious, I suppose, because I have the experience the young'un do not, and experience does help.
While I'm sure that I have all sorts of limitations I'm not aware of, like I probably smell funny or maybe don't know why Euphoria is the most awesome programming language _ever_, or simply can't hold my own on the foosball table, I think that toddler teams should have at least one elder mentor onboard--someone whose been through the ringer a few times--because we do know stuff that you'll only realize you didn't know after we say it, and we tend to be pretty grounded, which helps if you're trying to do things like, I don't know, make money.
Just don't let us pick the music for the office hi-fi.