Then we should compare (number of miles driven by human drivers/ accidents) in a given year compared to (number of miles driven by self driving cars/accidents) in the same given year. I'd wager right now self driving cars are losing. I'm not against the tech itself, but I think the over hyped optimism is unwarranted at this stage in their development, there are so many variables the AI has to consider.
Well, people aren't perfect, no. But you could also ask how many accidents are avoided every day because of humans who are paying attention, are good drivers, et al. Can the AI match that? Not currently it can't, not for all road, geography, environment, and lighting conditions it could encounter. Those are myriad. What about decision making? Car/AI suddenly encounters a car in the lane ahead that slams its brakes on; there is no way to stop in time to avoid a collision with this car's rear end: does the AI go left, (oops, head on to a truck!), move right, (crap,ran over a lady getting into her parked car on the shoulder) or choose to take the more minimal damage of just accepting the same lane collision? Realistically, this level of maturation in the technology is still a long way off.
No, but the TDS crowd here are having fits and seizures describing how unbelievably stupid Trump is and basically suggesting Hillary/Bernie had to to be better choices. Personally I wonder if Trump leaves the phone a bit insecure so at some point in the future he can use plausible deniability and say, "I didn't tweet that, I was hacked!".
Clyburn said that deregulation isn't bad in markets with robust competition, because competition itself can protect consumers. But "that is just not the case" in broadband, she said. "Let's just face it, [Internet service providers] are last-mile monopolies," she told Ars. "In an ideal world, we wouldn't need regulation. We don't live in an ideal world, not all markets are competitive, and when that is the case, that is why agencies like the FCC were constructed. We are here as a substitute for competition."
This guy gets it. Neither is an absolute, what's necessary is a balance. It's still difficult to agree on where to draw that line though.
Uhhh. No. They asked a snail what he remembered about a house in great detail, then they gave that memory to a completely different snail who had never been to that house, and he said the same thing.
This drives me up the wall as well. It'll often replace a perfectly appropriate, logical word that I just typed with one that makes no sense in the context of the sentence, several words later. Its grammar analysis blows. I seriously, seriously doubt the Google engineers who work on that project have English as their first language. The other kicker is the lack of reasonable, logical suggestions. Any verb (like "raise") that can be made present tense by appending an "s" or past tense by appending a "d" should have the other suggested when one of them is typed, after all the s and d keys are literally adjacent. But no, that just about never happens, and it gets the wrong one constantly, again, ignoring the overall context and tense of the sentence.
They're absolutely "progressive": they're pro illegal immigrants/open borders/37 genders/ and very anti-gun and anti-trump/. Honestly, even Bernie did a whack job on Bernie, he caved into to Hillary after getting completely shafted by her and the DNC, and still threw his full support behind her! Now there was an actual election scandal there (along with the Donna Brazile/CNN debacle) but, "russia russia russia".
You do realize there is a point at which taxes become gratuitous and overbearing, and that politicians can be every bit as greedy and money hungry as corporate fat cats? Amazon is under no obligation to stay there, certainly, but I found it just amazing that Jeff Bezos is also owner of the progressive Washington Post but when it comes time for his company to support higher taxes, it's "oh those rules don't apply to me".
Call me a cynic, but I wouldn't say technological progress is necessarily inevitable. Probable yes, but nothing is guaranteed. A couple of counter-examples is modern "alchemy", (well...changing one element into another), highly impractical on any sort of mass scale; and power generated by fusion; especially cold fusion. So far, useful applications of those technologies have been elusive despite decades of research. I suspect attempting interstellar travel in any acceptable time frame is going to be pretty hairy too.
As far as that robot goes, chances of improvement are much higher, but having to keep a laser focused on that wobbly photocell seems hardly practical. At best it's only good for line-of-sight. There's got to be a better way, preferably something that provides true power autonomy, but maybe something that can convert RF in the meantime.
You forget that Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy some years ago and only survived because M$ bailed them out? Cook just inherited Job's revival, they've had nothing really new or good since Job's died. Cook is nothing special. Also, 4 businesses (out of over a hundred), temporarily going into bankruptcy to reorganize, I think 3 of which were casinos, which at the time were all doing poorly across the country, is not really that horrible of a track record. All politicians are con-men when you think about it. Hillary sure is; and Bernie is more senile than any of them.
How did this drivel get modded up to 5 Informative? It's full of crap.
Did Trump collude with russians? Yes, we have two examples of proof. First his chosen people had that meeting with Russians.
There is no evidence any of those meetings had a direct bearing on the election and weren't just business meetings. We have nothing except the fact that Russians tried to foment division in the US by taking out FB ads and websites, some of which were pro Bernie Sanders. They went for the fringe candidates. As it is, it looks like any information Flynn handed over is now suspect, or due to coercion.
Second Trump openly asked for help on national tv.
lol To cite this as a serious matter of treason is lunacy. He said, IF they have the emails, release them. The working assumption here is, they already had them. Said in public at a rally, as a joke. Not something seriously behind closed doors. In any case didn't tell Russia to go hack Hillary's missing 30,000 emails that you mysteriously don't care about. The TV soundbyte is much ado about nothing.
Is Trump guilty of reckless disregard for the environment. Yes, see scott pruit.
WTF has that go to do with anything? Non Sequitur.
Is Trump guilty of far more than Clinton was impeached for? Sure. You've got what a dozen or so women, and at least one confirmed pay off, which certainly was illegal since it was a material contribution way outside of bounds to his campaign.
Wrong, and wrong. Here we see you really don't have any idea what you're talking about. Clinton was not impeached for having an affair; the impeachment was due to lying under oath to Congress during a hearing. Affairs aren't illegal, just immoral. And there is still zero evidence so far that this has anything to do with campaign contributions, except on the suggestion made by hearsay of Stormy McDaniels lawyer.
Everything else is you belly aching.
Is Trump a big headed lout? Yup. No contest. We had no ideal choices this election. But that's not illegal nor does it constitute treason.
Nonsense. Absolutely no is making them gamble or waste their money on taking chances. It's entirely optional. It's personal responsibility. Taxes OTOH, are mandatory by law. Gambling is a luxury at best, and IMO more like stupidity; of all the vices one could enjoy, throwing your money away on a slim chance is incomprehensible to me. The odds of one financially coming out ahead are low to really low.
TFA seems to indicate they believe this to be an unexpected and curious flaw in the software, but the fact that this works as well as it does, from up to 25 feet away, is inaudible to humans, and nearly all these PA devices can hear and respond to these types of ostensibly surreptitious commands.. well, maybe I'm paranoid, but maybe they just stumbled onto another NSA backdoor. Or even a Google/Apple/Amazon backdoor. I find this creepy and suspicious as hell.
Nobody rephrased anything; murder has always meant the killing of someone in a criminal manner. It has never applied to war, nor legally sanctioned executions. That's why there are different terms for homicide: murder, and manslaughter, thought to be distinguished as far back as the 7th century BC in Athens.
Essentially, it sounds like we're slowly getting back to a mainframe type philosophy, where less and less computing is done by the client, except the mainframe is now distributed across a cloud.
The robots that call me almost always leave voicemail, which in itself is a recording. Usually it's for a "great rate" on credit, or new windows, or something so stupid I can't believe they can actually get any business like this. They must be interesting someone out there in their services to be able to keep going.
Which brings up my only concern. About 5 years ago a Dietz & Watson warehouse in our area caught fire and they couldn't do much about it, so it burnt to the ground. We know one of the firemen and he corroborated the story here. The solar panels interfered with their ability to get on the roof and suppress the flames. If not for that being an issue, I'd love to go solar. http://www.nj.com/burlington/i...
I do (Alt +) PrntScrn, but use Irfanview, I always keep it's icon handy in the bottom left of the screen. Works great for 95% of everything I'd need it for, and cropping is stupid easy. I almost never use the Snipping tool. If I want a screenshot inside of a fullscreen game, F12 usually works for the ones I play. This really sounds like much ado about nothing.
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Then we should compare (number of miles driven by human drivers/ accidents) in a given year compared to (number of miles driven by self driving cars/accidents) in the same given year. I'd wager right now self driving cars are losing.
I'm not against the tech itself, but I think the over hyped optimism is unwarranted at this stage in their development, there are so many variables the AI has to consider.
Well, people aren't perfect, no. But you could also ask how many accidents are avoided every day because of humans who are paying attention, are good drivers, et al. Can the AI match that? Not currently it can't, not for all road, geography, environment, and lighting conditions it could encounter. Those are myriad.
What about decision making? Car/AI suddenly encounters a car in the lane ahead that slams its brakes on; there is no way to stop in time to avoid a collision with this car's rear end: does the AI go left, (oops, head on to a truck!), move right, (crap,ran over a lady getting into her parked car on the shoulder) or choose to take the more minimal damage of just accepting the same lane collision?
Realistically, this level of maturation in the technology is still a long way off.
It's them Musworms :-D
No, but the TDS crowd here are having fits and seizures describing how unbelievably stupid Trump is and basically suggesting Hillary/Bernie had to to be better choices.
Personally I wonder if Trump leaves the phone a bit insecure so at some point in the future he can use plausible deniability and say, "I didn't tweet that, I was hacked!".
Clyburn said that deregulation isn't bad in markets with robust competition, because competition itself can protect consumers. But "that is just not the case" in broadband, she said. "Let's just face it, [Internet service providers] are last-mile monopolies," she told Ars. "In an ideal world, we wouldn't need regulation. We don't live in an ideal world, not all markets are competitive, and when that is the case, that is why agencies like the FCC were constructed. We are here as a substitute for competition."
This guy gets it. Neither is an absolute, what's necessary is a balance. It's still difficult to agree on where to draw that line though.
Uhhh. No. They asked a snail what he remembered about a house in great detail, then they gave that memory to a completely different snail who had never been to that house, and he said the same thing.
Was the house perchance a pineapple?
This drives me up the wall as well. It'll often replace a perfectly appropriate, logical word that I just typed with one that makes no sense in the context of the sentence, several words later. Its grammar analysis blows. I seriously, seriously doubt the Google engineers who work on that project have English as their first language.
The other kicker is the lack of reasonable, logical suggestions. Any verb (like "raise") that can be made present tense by appending an "s" or past tense by appending a "d" should have the other suggested when one of them is typed, after all the s and d keys are literally adjacent. But no, that just about never happens, and it gets the wrong one constantly, again, ignoring the overall context and tense of the sentence.
They're absolutely "progressive": they're pro illegal immigrants/open borders/37 genders/ and very anti-gun and anti-trump/.
Honestly, even Bernie did a whack job on Bernie, he caved into to Hillary after getting completely shafted by her and the DNC, and still threw his full support behind her! Now there was an actual election scandal there (along with the Donna Brazile/CNN debacle) but, "russia russia russia".
And then we can create our zombie army!
Well.. close enough I guess.
You do realize there is a point at which taxes become gratuitous and overbearing, and that politicians can be every bit as greedy and money hungry as corporate fat cats? Amazon is under no obligation to stay there, certainly, but I found it just amazing that Jeff Bezos is also owner of the progressive Washington Post but when it comes time for his company to support higher taxes, it's "oh those rules don't apply to me".
Call me a cynic, but I wouldn't say technological progress is necessarily inevitable. Probable yes, but nothing is guaranteed. A couple of counter-examples is modern "alchemy", (well...changing one element into another), highly impractical on any sort of mass scale; and power generated by fusion; especially cold fusion. So far, useful applications of those technologies have been elusive despite decades of research. I suspect attempting interstellar travel in any acceptable time frame is going to be pretty hairy too.
As far as that robot goes, chances of improvement are much higher, but having to keep a laser focused on that wobbly photocell seems hardly practical. At best it's only good for line-of-sight. There's got to be a better way, preferably something that provides true power autonomy, but maybe something that can convert RF in the meantime.
You forget that Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy some years ago and only survived because M$ bailed them out? Cook just inherited Job's revival, they've had nothing really new or good since Job's died. Cook is nothing special.
Also, 4 businesses (out of over a hundred), temporarily going into bankruptcy to reorganize, I think 3 of which were casinos, which at the time were all doing poorly across the country, is not really that horrible of a track record.
All politicians are con-men when you think about it. Hillary sure is; and Bernie is more senile than any of them.
Nah, that was Hillary (ref the SNL skits). Trump's been saying stuff a LOT of people don't want to hear, even republicans.
I'd forgotten about The Bat!.. it was okay. Weird though.
I use Thunderbird for everything now. It can be quirky but it works well enough.
How did this drivel get modded up to 5 Informative? It's full of crap.
Did Trump collude with russians? Yes, we have two examples of proof. First his chosen people had that meeting with Russians.
There is no evidence any of those meetings had a direct bearing on the election and weren't just business meetings. We have nothing except the fact that Russians tried to foment division in the US by taking out FB ads and websites, some of which were pro Bernie Sanders. They went for the fringe candidates.
As it is, it looks like any information Flynn handed over is now suspect, or due to coercion.
Second Trump openly asked for help on national tv.
lol To cite this as a serious matter of treason is lunacy. He said, IF they have the emails, release them. The working assumption here is, they already had them. Said in public at a rally, as a joke. Not something seriously behind closed doors.
In any case didn't tell Russia to go hack Hillary's missing 30,000 emails that you mysteriously don't care about.
The TV soundbyte is much ado about nothing.
Is Trump guilty of reckless disregard for the environment. Yes, see scott pruit.
WTF has that go to do with anything? Non Sequitur.
Is Trump guilty of far more than Clinton was impeached for? Sure. You've got what a dozen or so women, and at least one confirmed pay off, which certainly was illegal since it was a material contribution way outside of bounds to his campaign.
Wrong, and wrong. Here we see you really don't have any idea what you're talking about. Clinton was not impeached for having an affair; the impeachment was due to lying under oath to Congress during a hearing. Affairs aren't illegal, just immoral.
And there is still zero evidence so far that this has anything to do with campaign contributions, except on the suggestion made by hearsay of Stormy McDaniels lawyer.
Everything else is you belly aching.
Is Trump a big headed lout? Yup. No contest. We had no ideal choices this election. But that's not illegal nor does it constitute treason.
Nonsense. Absolutely no is making them gamble or waste their money on taking chances. It's entirely optional. It's personal responsibility. Taxes OTOH, are mandatory by law.
Gambling is a luxury at best, and IMO more like stupidity; of all the vices one could enjoy, throwing your money away on a slim chance is incomprehensible to me. The odds of one financially coming out ahead are low to really low.
Sometimes I think Hollywood is definitely it's own planet. Or from a different one.
But when I hear 'Planet Hollywood', I think, "Yippee-ki-yay, Adrian, I'll be baaack.".
No, but I have some damn fine hearing..!
We'll never know. Nessus ain't talkin'
TFA seems to indicate they believe this to be an unexpected and curious flaw in the software, but the fact that this works as well as it does, from up to 25 feet away, is inaudible to humans, and nearly all these PA devices can hear and respond to these types of ostensibly surreptitious commands.. well, maybe I'm paranoid, but maybe they just stumbled onto another NSA backdoor. Or even a Google/Apple/Amazon backdoor.
I find this creepy and suspicious as hell.
Nobody rephrased anything; murder has always meant the killing of someone in a criminal manner. It has never applied to war, nor legally sanctioned executions. That's why there are different terms for homicide: murder, and manslaughter, thought to be distinguished as far back as the 7th century BC in Athens.
Essentially, it sounds like we're slowly getting back to a mainframe type philosophy, where less and less computing is done by the client, except the mainframe is now distributed across a cloud.
The robots that call me almost always leave voicemail, which in itself is a recording. Usually it's for a "great rate" on credit, or new windows, or something so stupid I can't believe they can actually get any business like this. They must be interesting someone out there in their services to be able to keep going.
Which brings up my only concern. About 5 years ago a Dietz & Watson warehouse in our area caught fire and they couldn't do much about it, so it burnt to the ground. We know one of the firemen and he corroborated the story here. The solar panels interfered with their ability to get on the roof and suppress the flames.
If not for that being an issue, I'd love to go solar.
http://www.nj.com/burlington/i...
I do (Alt +) PrntScrn, but use Irfanview, I always keep it's icon handy in the bottom left of the screen. Works great for 95% of everything I'd need it for, and cropping is stupid easy. I almost never use the Snipping tool. If I want a screenshot inside of a fullscreen game, F12 usually works for the ones I play.
This really sounds like much ado about nothing.