If you've not already watched the movie, then go watch The Thirteenth Floor.
As complex and complicated as our Universe seems to us, we have no way of knowing how far that extends beyond it. Our Universe could be rather basic and boring compare to the reality beyond. We would have no way of knowing.
Do you think a simulated colony of Ants in a computer system would be able to understand the nature of the physical reality? To them, their little world could be comparability very complex and decree it would be unable to be duplicated as it's just too complicated.
There is no viability to Pro or Con studies for this. We simply would not be capable of knowing if we're simulated as our own thought processes would in fact be governed by the same rules of the system we're attempting to prove or disprove. You're trying prove a proof by using the proof as proof. It's just an exercise in futility as any civilization or system capable of creating such a complete simulation will undoubtedly have put in to place provisions for "what if the simulation starts questioning reality".
For those who haven't seen it before, the phrase "bete noire" is from the French language. "Noire" means "black", as in the color. "Bete" means "penis". In French, adjectives follow the noun they refer to. So the phrase "bete noire" literally means "black penis".
The English equivalent of this phrase is "black sheep".
Now before any BLM types get all up in arms over the use of the word "black" in these sayings, please keep in mind that these are ancient sayings that predate most British and French interaction with Africans or people with darker skin. "Black" in those contexts referred to the darkness of night, and not to anyone's skin color. In a time before electric lighting, and where candles and fire were the main source of light after dark, the blackness of night was tied to feelings of uncertainty and fear.
Thus the word "black", or "noire" in French, came to be associated with negativity. That's why outcasts were called "bete noire" in French, or "black sheep" in English. It's also why the bubonic plague was known as the "black death".
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What idiotic nonsense. I know plenty of people that own cats up in to the 7 figure range and drive themselves because they enjoy the experience of driving an exotic, super or hypercar.
No one asked for this feature, but Apple wants to give it to us anyway. They have really lost touch with their user base, IMHO, and stray further and further afield. I think it may be time for another visionary but I doubt that Apple's culture will promote one as the old guard holds on for dear life.
It's not the 1st time they've had facial unlock... It goes back years..
Decentralized, as the arpanet/internet was designed from the ground up, means that there is not single point that could be attacked to bring it down, and that it would be resilient to multiple attacks via a cell and mesh system that can isolate traffic when connecting links go down.
If you look at the 'physical wires' (I am sure you meant fibers), then you will see multiple providers, with multiple connections to any site.
Even if you look at a large single provider like Google, their infrastructure is a perfect example of a distributed network that can operate individually if it loses access to other segments of the network.
Guess what happens when we have vast amounts of smaller individual systems providing various ways to access all the same services?
Inevitably, without fail, those small groups slowly coalesce or are bought/sold directly in to slight few, yet larger groups, who them repeat the process until we're left with very, but very large groups of connected systems..
Not even w/ regard to tech specifically... It happens in all manner of areas.
People will start out being OK with everything being decentralized, but over the years, will want this to connect to that better, easier, cheaper, etc. Well, there's only a few true ways to do that.. That eventually leads to more and more centralization of things we like/use often.. Which leads us to where we are.
So it's an S8+ with a second rear camera and a pen?
That's how I read it.. As a Note 3 and Note 5 owner.. I yawned through most of the other data and the release videos.. There's a few kinda neat tricks on Note 8 only, but, not worth it for me to jump ship to it.
I think there's a huge stash of "almost new" Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries that aren't being used now.
Just surround them with thermoelectric generating materials and you'd do fine... Hell, you'll probably get a credit back from the local utility company.
Who bothers with a console? I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99. If I want a game on the console, I am paying $79.99 for the physical media ($79.98 if I buy it used), then have to pay another C-note just for DLC, so I have a chance of actually winning, and so the side quests are present, making the game make sense. Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
If you want to be an end user, who does what he/she is told, and opens the wallet when EA or Ubisoft demands more cash for the same tired old IP that hasn't changed since the early 2000s, by all means... buy a console. If you like actual gaming, PC is where it is at.
And if you want to play games with any real level of quality, you'll be shelling out for a PC -- which you skipped fully over there in your inept rant. You'll also be paying for an OS, another 100 or two there.
Also, I buy games at 59.99 -- not your 79.99, so I'm already 20 ahead of your quote. You don't shell out 100.00 for DLC unless you're an idiot. Depending on how fast you play them, you can trade them back in for at least 50% of their value -- so, now I'm down to like 25-30 worth of expense....
If you're going to bring the penis measuring BS, try to know WTF you're talking about.
I was referring to General Zod in Superman II, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I understood your reference... Dracarys! is High Valerian for "Dragonfire" and it's what Daenerys Targaryen says to encourage her dragons to spew forth a flaming hell fire that destroys anything in its path.. Including people that refuse to bend the knee to her or are bending knees to the wrong ruler.
Why did people stop using trains in the mid 20th century? Because cars came about! Why do people like cars better than trains? Because cars don't have a set schedule that must be followed to the minute.
As long as hyperloop or whatever else operates on a fixed schedule, then it solves no problems, and people won't use it. Nobody wanted to be a slave to the train schedule 100 years ago, and nobody will want to go back to being a slave to the train schedule again, either. Thinking otherwise is a fools errand.
That ignores the whole part about building it. It took 90 years and 4 billion dollars to get an additional 2 miles of subway track added to new york city. Philadelphia has been trying to make their subway 8 city blocks longer for over 50 years now and has gotten absolutely nowhere. But we're supposed to believe that a 400 mile long tube is just gonna magically show up across the I 95 corridor overnight? With that kind of thinking I might as well start going to church again.
Nobody?
There are millions of people in Chicago and New York alone that are a "slave to a train/bus" every single day and have been for decades.. Many of them don't even own cars... So, "nobody" is a false assertion by far.
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If you've not already watched the movie, then go watch The Thirteenth Floor.
As complex and complicated as our Universe seems to us, we have no way of knowing how far that extends beyond it. Our Universe could be rather basic and boring compare to the reality beyond. We would have no way of knowing.
Do you think a simulated colony of Ants in a computer system would be able to understand the nature of the physical reality? To them, their little world could be comparability very complex and decree it would be unable to be duplicated as it's just too complicated.
There is no viability to Pro or Con studies for this. We simply would not be capable of knowing if we're simulated as our own thought processes would in fact be governed by the same rules of the system we're attempting to prove or disprove. You're trying prove a proof by using the proof as proof. It's just an exercise in futility as any civilization or system capable of creating such a complete simulation will undoubtedly have put in to place provisions for "what if the simulation starts questioning reality".
For those who haven't seen it before, the phrase "bete noire" is from the French language. "Noire" means "black", as in the color. "Bete" means "penis". In French, adjectives follow the noun they refer to. So the phrase "bete noire" literally means "black penis".
The English equivalent of this phrase is "black sheep".
Now before any BLM types get all up in arms over the use of the word "black" in these sayings, please keep in mind that these are ancient sayings that predate most British and French interaction with Africans or people with darker skin. "Black" in those contexts referred to the darkness of night, and not to anyone's skin color. In a time before electric lighting, and where candles and fire were the main source of light after dark, the blackness of night was tied to feelings of uncertainty and fear.
Thus the word "black", or "noire" in French, came to be associated with negativity. That's why outcasts were called "bete noire" in French, or "black sheep" in English. It's also why the bubonic plague was known as the "black death".
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And an idiotic auto correct. Cars. 7 figure cars.
What idiotic nonsense. I know plenty of people that own cats up in to the 7 figure range and drive themselves because they enjoy the experience of driving an exotic, super or hypercar.
No one asked for this feature, but Apple wants to give it to us anyway. They have really lost touch with their user base, IMHO, and stray further and further afield. I think it may be time for another visionary but I doubt that Apple's culture will promote one as the old guard holds on for dear life.
It's not the 1st time they've had facial unlock... It goes back years..
https://9to5mac.com/2011/05/18...
This is just a newer type of face recog.
A device the police can unlock by just showing it to you? pass.
Face unlock isn't new, not even to Apple.
People used to show a picture of someone to the 1st gen of this tech and it unlocked easily.
I actually watched someone unlock an iDevice with another iDevice by showing it their employee roster picture from our company website..
(you can turn Facial unlock off.. just like with the ubiquitous thumbprint unlock)
To bring us this information...
Did they sell before the news went public, or after?
From what I read... The execs learned of the breach, sold and then it went public.. So, f'em... Toss the whole book at them.
The engineer gets prosecuted for decisions signed off by the executives?
That surprises you? Honestly, I'd be more surprised if the executives were actually charged with anything other than holding up a round of golf.
You missed, entirely, the point of my post with regard to the intent of "decentralizing" the web (or anything for that matter).
FFS, does anybody know what decentralized means?
Decentralized, as the arpanet/internet was designed from the ground up, means that there is not single point that could be attacked to bring it down, and that it would be resilient to multiple attacks via a cell and mesh system that can isolate traffic when connecting links go down.
If you look at the 'physical wires' (I am sure you meant fibers), then you will see multiple providers, with multiple connections to any site.
Even if you look at a large single provider like Google, their infrastructure is a perfect example of a distributed network that can operate individually if it loses access to other segments of the network.
Guess what happens when we have vast amounts of smaller individual systems providing various ways to access all the same services?
Inevitably, without fail, those small groups slowly coalesce or are bought/sold directly in to slight few, yet larger groups, who them repeat the process until we're left with very, but very large groups of connected systems..
Not even w/ regard to tech specifically... It happens in all manner of areas.
People will start out being OK with everything being decentralized, but over the years, will want this to connect to that better, easier, cheaper, etc. Well, there's only a few true ways to do that.. That eventually leads to more and more centralization of things we like/use often.. Which leads us to where we are.
So it's an S8+ with a second rear camera and a pen?
That's how I read it.. As a Note 3 and Note 5 owner.. I yawned through most of the other data and the release videos.. There's a few kinda neat tricks on Note 8 only, but, not worth it for me to jump ship to it.
I think there's a huge stash of "almost new" Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries that aren't being used now.
Just surround them with thermoelectric generating materials and you'd do fine... Hell, you'll probably get a credit back from the local utility company.
Capitalize all you want, the first letter of Xbox is X, not XB.
Then why, exactly, is Xbox One abbreviated as XBO?
Either log in as yourself, or don't reply.
No, I believe that you are missing the other guy's point.
Other than being intentionally dense, there was no point.
The title of my post has capitals in there for a reason.
XBO is Xbox One, so XBox One X would be XBOX.
Who bothers with a console? I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99. If I want a game on the console, I am paying $79.99 for the physical media ($79.98 if I buy it used), then have to pay another C-note just for DLC, so I have a chance of actually winning, and so the side quests are present, making the game make sense. Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
If you want to be an end user, who does what he/she is told, and opens the wallet when EA or Ubisoft demands more cash for the same tired old IP that hasn't changed since the early 2000s, by all means... buy a console. If you like actual gaming, PC is where it is at.
And if you want to play games with any real level of quality, you'll be shelling out for a PC -- which you skipped fully over there in your inept rant. You'll also be paying for an OS, another 100 or two there.
Also, I buy games at 59.99 -- not your 79.99, so I'm already 20 ahead of your quote. You don't shell out 100.00 for DLC unless you're an idiot. Depending on how fast you play them, you can trade them back in for at least 50% of their value -- so, now I'm down to like 25-30 worth of expense....
If you're going to bring the penis measuring BS, try to know WTF you're talking about.
Anyone else notice that they made it such that it just spells XBOX when you shorten it?
Still don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Is it Harry Potter? Lord of the Rings?
... Game of Thrones.
I was referring to General Zod in Superman II, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I understood your reference... Dracarys! is High Valerian for "Dragonfire" and it's what Daenerys Targaryen says to encourage her dragons to spew forth a flaming hell fire that destroys anything in its path.. Including people that refuse to bend the knee to her or are bending knees to the wrong ruler.
That's why I only believe in Z! Kneel before Z!
Dracarys!
Careful, you'll end up with robot legs on an alien ship.
Replicant Bob is already there with his auto factories looking out for Medeiros and the Others.
Why did people stop using trains in the mid 20th century? Because cars came about! Why do people like cars better than trains? Because cars don't have a set schedule that must be followed to the minute.
As long as hyperloop or whatever else operates on a fixed schedule, then it solves no problems, and people won't use it. Nobody wanted to be a slave to the train schedule 100 years ago, and nobody will want to go back to being a slave to the train schedule again, either. Thinking otherwise is a fools errand.
That ignores the whole part about building it. It took 90 years and 4 billion dollars to get an additional 2 miles of subway track added to new york city. Philadelphia has been trying to make their subway 8 city blocks longer for over 50 years now and has gotten absolutely nowhere. But we're supposed to believe that a 400 mile long tube is just gonna magically show up across the I 95 corridor overnight? With that kind of thinking I might as well start going to church again.
Nobody?
There are millions of people in Chicago and New York alone that are a "slave to a train/bus" every single day and have been for decades.. Many of them don't even own cars... So, "nobody" is a false assertion by far.