Thanks for the news, but I gotta say I hate CNet's habit of throwing you an auto play video every time you click on a link. I'm on a slow wi-fi network and just closing the floating window doesn't stop the audio, which you can't pause until the embedded video is loaded and you find it. I wonder why they keep being this annoying. I was a fan of their website before that but then I turned my back to them because I felt like they didn't care about User Experience at all. Feels good speaking about it.
You'd only have to tweak one pixel, just a little bit, and the hash would be completely different. I don't believe that "hash" thing. They act like this is gonna be unhackable but it won't be. It's just a very very bad idea unless there is some clever and perfect way to prevent tempering the the picture to change the hash, which would surprise me.
After a big party or festival, I often realize that Facebook suggest me relations with people I've been in the same place with, even though we didn't confirm attending or being interested in the same events, even though we didn't tag each other or didn't add new common friends. My guess is that either Facebook makes connections through common friends actions, or it uses our GPS location to put us in the same place at the same time.
20% of the work will get you 80% of the results, and the last 80% will only give you the remaining 20%. The question is how much value you put on the Apple logo, the fact of owning a flagship device and how much you need state of the art technology for your day to day use. Most of it is very subjective, but consumerism in rich country is not that much about satisfying our basic needs, and a lot about the satisfaction of getting the product we grew to desire. Most products on the market are not purely rational choices, even if peoples needs differ, but they may feel like a better choice depending on emotional choices like brand fidelity, a special interest for this product or even peer pressure. As long as you don't go bankrupt and don't struggle to feed your kids because of this, there is not much handle here for judgment.
I wonder how much information they actually have. Are they only based on job offers made on their website? Because I guess smaller businesses or those in rural areas do not advertise in the same way as bug businesses in urban areas. According to that tool, I'd be under the 25th percentile in salary although I am over the 90th percentile in income in my region according to recent data.
The video says speed bumps hinders even slow drivers, but it's only partially true. Speed bumps are made to make you slow down and work with your car's suspension, but many people stop just before going over it. If you're going too fast, your suspension will reach it's limit and it'll be a rough ride, same if you don't go fast enough and your suspension doesn't give at all. If you're going at the right speed, the suspension makes it almost smooth.
Speed bumps neat pedestrian crossings could be replaces by those though.
When I see "frictionless", I think perpetual motion machine. Which can't exists because of the laws of thermodynamics. Then there is this "fully reversible" concept here that claims it's not only allowed, but inspired by the laws of thermodynamics. So I'd like to ask : Although we are putting new energy in the processors, how can we make information go through it without it loosing any energy or experiencing any friction? Isn't it impossible? Or how do we compensate?
The Office de la Langue Française has nothing to do with that. Nintendo simply plans to sell to few consoles to make it worth making a french north american version of the console. The SNES Mini will be available in France though
I have heard that they translated the games for European french countries but won't bother putting these games in an north american version of the consome. Is that right?
Users on 64-bit Windows who download Firefox will now get our 64-bit version by default. Why couldn't Mozilla make a default 64bit version for the 64bit OSes and keep a 32bit default for the 32bit OSes. And it's been a while since the last 32bit OSes and processors have been sold by default.
Sound and video is just less convenient. It may be good for illiterate people, those without fingers or when you need to make a long detailed conversation, but it requires an environment where you may talk and listen to sound (unlike most open space environment or public place where it's either too calm or too noisy to hold a vocal conversation) and it's requires answering right now. The greatest thing about text messages is that it is direct but doesn't require immediate and complete attention.
It is also true for most other uses. Like searches and everything. I never use vocal assistant because it just seems weird to start shouting orders to my phones when I could just quietly push a button or two.
We really have to make it possible guys! The hard part is to make a cable light and strong enough to attach a geo-stationary satellite to the earth's surface. Graphene nanotubes are the best candidate but we still have to figure out how to produce it in such lengths. Still, if we put out money into saving fuel to reach earth's escape velocity, the inner solar system would be much cheaper for humans to travel and we could start thinking about building and maintaining bases on the moon and other planets. I still dream I'll be able to see this space elevator in my lifetime.
AI learns from our own biases. Those who claim that reality is biased and not humans tend not to think that many biases are self fulfilling prophecies. Black people are not naturally more violent, but poor people are, for many complex social and psychological reasons. Don't forget that black people started as slaves in North America and that it most often takes many many generations for poor people to get out of poverty, which is getting even harder now with income inequalities. So, are black people more violent or are many of them born with more chances of getting violent? Causality is the word here.
In conclusion, I don't think humans are a good start for AI. We are flawed in god know how many ways, and it's not only a matter of data processing capabilities, it's a matter of how our primal emotions, like love, fear and anger guides pour professional and political decisions.
I sure hope they will be forced to offer better prices at the end of contracts because you may often he able to negotiate a 10$/m reduction while the value of the phone amounts to 2- to 25$ per month during the contract. Prices are the same everywhere and you have to search and work a lot if you want to get the best price. CAD$40 for 1Gb per month is pure scam. It's almost no data at all!
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Isn't it YouTube Red that's becoming YouTube Premium?
Thanks for the news, but I gotta say I hate CNet's habit of throwing you an auto play video every time you click on a link. I'm on a slow wi-fi network and just closing the floating window doesn't stop the audio, which you can't pause until the embedded video is loaded and you find it. I wonder why they keep being this annoying. I was a fan of their website before that but then I turned my back to them because I felt like they didn't care about User Experience at all. Feels good speaking about it.
You'd only have to tweak one pixel, just a little bit, and the hash would be completely different. I don't believe that "hash" thing. They act like this is gonna be unhackable but it won't be. It's just a very very bad idea unless there is some clever and perfect way to prevent tempering the the picture to change the hash, which would surprise me.
After a big party or festival, I often realize that Facebook suggest me relations with people I've been in the same place with, even though we didn't confirm attending or being interested in the same events, even though we didn't tag each other or didn't add new common friends. My guess is that either Facebook makes connections through common friends actions, or it uses our GPS location to put us in the same place at the same time.
20% of the work will get you 80% of the results, and the last 80% will only give you the remaining 20%. The question is how much value you put on the Apple logo, the fact of owning a flagship device and how much you need state of the art technology for your day to day use. Most of it is very subjective, but consumerism in rich country is not that much about satisfying our basic needs, and a lot about the satisfaction of getting the product we grew to desire. Most products on the market are not purely rational choices, even if peoples needs differ, but they may feel like a better choice depending on emotional choices like brand fidelity, a special interest for this product or even peer pressure. As long as you don't go bankrupt and don't struggle to feed your kids because of this, there is not much handle here for judgment.
I wonder how much information they actually have. Are they only based on job offers made on their website? Because I guess smaller businesses or those in rural areas do not advertise in the same way as bug businesses in urban areas. According to that tool, I'd be under the 25th percentile in salary although I am over the 90th percentile in income in my region according to recent data.
The video says speed bumps hinders even slow drivers, but it's only partially true. Speed bumps are made to make you slow down and work with your car's suspension, but many people stop just before going over it. If you're going too fast, your suspension will reach it's limit and it'll be a rough ride, same if you don't go fast enough and your suspension doesn't give at all. If you're going at the right speed, the suspension makes it almost smooth. Speed bumps neat pedestrian crossings could be replaces by those though.
When I see "frictionless", I think perpetual motion machine. Which can't exists because of the laws of thermodynamics. Then there is this "fully reversible" concept here that claims it's not only allowed, but inspired by the laws of thermodynamics. So I'd like to ask : Although we are putting new energy in the processors, how can we make information go through it without it loosing any energy or experiencing any friction? Isn't it impossible? Or how do we compensate?
The Office de la Langue Française has nothing to do with that. Nintendo simply plans to sell to few consoles to make it worth making a french north american version of the console. The SNES Mini will be available in France though
Exactly! Sadly...
I have heard that they translated the games for European french countries but won't bother putting these games in an north american version of the consome. Is that right?
Users on 64-bit Windows who download Firefox will now get our 64-bit version by default. Why couldn't Mozilla make a default 64bit version for the 64bit OSes and keep a 32bit default for the 32bit OSes. And it's been a while since the last 32bit OSes and processors have been sold by default.
It's been more than 15 years since the first 64bit OSes... What was Mozilla waiting for?
Sound and video is just less convenient. It may be good for illiterate people, those without fingers or when you need to make a long detailed conversation, but it requires an environment where you may talk and listen to sound (unlike most open space environment or public place where it's either too calm or too noisy to hold a vocal conversation) and it's requires answering right now. The greatest thing about text messages is that it is direct but doesn't require immediate and complete attention. It is also true for most other uses. Like searches and everything. I never use vocal assistant because it just seems weird to start shouting orders to my phones when I could just quietly push a button or two.
We really have to make it possible guys! The hard part is to make a cable light and strong enough to attach a geo-stationary satellite to the earth's surface. Graphene nanotubes are the best candidate but we still have to figure out how to produce it in such lengths. Still, if we put out money into saving fuel to reach earth's escape velocity, the inner solar system would be much cheaper for humans to travel and we could start thinking about building and maintaining bases on the moon and other planets. I still dream I'll be able to see this space elevator in my lifetime.
AI learns from our own biases. Those who claim that reality is biased and not humans tend not to think that many biases are self fulfilling prophecies. Black people are not naturally more violent, but poor people are, for many complex social and psychological reasons. Don't forget that black people started as slaves in North America and that it most often takes many many generations for poor people to get out of poverty, which is getting even harder now with income inequalities. So, are black people more violent or are many of them born with more chances of getting violent? Causality is the word here. In conclusion, I don't think humans are a good start for AI. We are flawed in god know how many ways, and it's not only a matter of data processing capabilities, it's a matter of how our primal emotions, like love, fear and anger guides pour professional and political decisions.
I sure hope they will be forced to offer better prices at the end of contracts because you may often he able to negotiate a 10$/m reduction while the value of the phone amounts to 2- to 25$ per month during the contract. Prices are the same everywhere and you have to search and work a lot if you want to get the best price. CAD$40 for 1Gb per month is pure scam. It's almost no data at all!
Even Free stuff developed by volunteers need money for their basic operating fees (ie : do you think their website hosts itself out of thin air?)