Well, even assuming that micro-expressions can indeed reflect some mental state, how would you teach an AI that ? It's not like you can have 10000 pictures of people with a valid set of associated micro-expressions... simply because nobody can accurately recognize micro-expressions except in some edge cases. They are very dynamic too, so a picture won't cut it (a video might).
And about the taping of video cameras on PCs, why aren't the LEDs hardwired to the camera: if the camera is ON, the LED is too, not relying on some software to turn it on. Seems like a no-brainer.
If I could just pop the hard drive in a new box and have everything adjust itself automagically, I would love to have the latest and greatest, even if I don't really need it
This is exactly how it works in Linux. I have some systems where I did this cycle a few times: update everything but the HD+OS (painless), update the HD copying the OS to new one (somewhat tricky), update the OS (painless).
In France all engineering schools, veterinarian school, business schools and a few others (not medical although that's not too different) work this way with really tough entrance exams that last about 3 months, 8 hours a day !!! Schools group by affinity and do one week of written tests and one week of oral ones. It works but it's hell.
For a long time Hispanics and African Americans were complaining these tests are unfair to them. [...] Almost all Indian parents know their children need to score 150 points over Whites to get admission to elite colleges
How can a test be able to guess your race ? Please explain as I've never actually seen those tests. Or is it just that the people selecting the candidates discard based on names or pictures ? In that case the problem lies not with the tests. Evidence ?
I was thinking the same. I've had Samsung, LG, Wiko, Archos, HTC and other cell phones and all of them have had a working FM radio. I use it daily and find it is one of the required selling points.
How long before we have a National ID card in the US?
I've always failed to see the common point between an ID card and a surveillance society. A card is necessary for your interactions with your gov. Even in the US without officially having one, you still have one in practice, but it's worse because it's an insecure mash-up, part driver's license, part SSID number, leading to a fuckton of identity theft. We've had ID cards in Europe for generations and we currently have a less fucked up and 'curious' state. Fight the establishment of a police state any which way you want, but the ID card is the wrong way to go at it.
When you say "wine sucked back then", you are right. Making good wine is difficult. But nowadays there's a whole gamut of analyses to understand the problems (too acid, not enough alcohol, not tannic enough, etc) and chemicals to remediate. Just go on a website that sell winemaking accessories to have an idea of the possible issues... And this means that nowadays there are no bad wines anymore. Even 2$ bottles are quite drinkable while 50 years ago you'd use them to clean rusted metal.
I got on the bitcoin bandwagon early on and let my miner run for a few weeks, but it kept showing a wallet of 0.00Bc, so I turned it off. I thought at the time it was either a rounding off or I did something wrong, turned it off and never used it again. Maybe I should fire it again see if that rounding error somehow turned into a winning lottery ticket. I'm sure it's on one of my many backups.
Well, I do that to make ends meet. The traditional way is to have a list of all the things in the house, signed by the renter upon arrival. Then upon departure you go again with him through the list: 10 forks, 6 chairs, etc... If something's missing and/or broken you keep part of the deposit. No need for cameras.
Most of your examples are disingenous: they rely on the fact that at some point someone accepted a 'solution' or a product that runs only on a windows or a specific sub-product for it (like IE6). When a vendor comes to me with a 'solution' like this, I laugh him out of the room. Either it runs everywhere or it's open-source and I can work on it to make it so. I agree that being a small shop doesn't always work (but there's ccompetition), but having tens of thousands of PC can force vendors to CHANGE.
Teaching atheism ? Huh ?!? You are an atheist when you are born, and you stay this way unless 'taught' a religion with a belt or endless rote learning sessions.
Well, for what it's worth, I used to read a lot of SF. But that decreased significantly with my starting use of the Internet in 95, then took a much greater hit with a kid 4 years ago. And work. And extra activities. From a book a week to one a month to now only a few a year. And what I just started yesterday is the 4th and final book in the Destiny's Crucible series by Olan Thorensen, a pretty good mix of SF, alternate history and game of throne.
Which is probably why the latest Androids are in charge-only mode when you plug them in. You have to select a menu to activate data exchange (MTP) or other USB modes.
I don't know about the U.S., but in Europe an ATM or credit card transaction will phone home over 100â, but below 99 it won't. Once you know that you can make some purchases faster.
Well, I have a big ID because I read/. for a few years before I decided to create an account. I've actually read ALL of/. posts. It'd been open for a few months when I discovered it on Usenet and I quickly browsed back through the backlog. And ever since it's been a morning ritual. And when I get back from vacation I quickly browse what I've missed.
Why isn't there a way to search my own posts ? And why is search in general still mostly broken ? I mean it's not like you have to use perl or something, right ? Right ?
And how about someone makes a phone with both a micro-USB plug and a USB-C plug ? Doesn't seem too hard. Add this to 4G, USA+Euro frequencies, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM radio, SDXC >=128Gb, resolution >=1920x, size >=5", a good selection of codecs, removable battery, RAM >=3Go, onboard mem >=32Go, and less than 150g. Doesn't seem to be asking for too much. The rest doesn't matter, costs extra and is sometimes a hindrance (facial recognition, hah!).
Having an FM tuner is one of the requirements when I change my Android phone (the others being 4G, USA+Europe frequencies, 3.5mm headphone jack, SDXC >64Gb, screen >=1920x, screen >=5.5", removable battery, >2Go mem, >16Go onboard, 150g). This being said the last 3 phones I've had had shitty radios that kept on changing channel by themselves. I have no idea why. I suspected that the cabling of the earphones had something wrong and sent some fake 'next channel' signal, but it happens with different earphones and some phones are worse than others.
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Aren't they the same ? One app I'd installed from the store simply showed up in the F-droid list as installed.
Well, even assuming that micro-expressions can indeed reflect some mental state, how would you teach an AI that ? It's not like you can have 10000 pictures of people with a valid set of associated micro-expressions... simply because nobody can accurately recognize micro-expressions except in some edge cases. They are very dynamic too, so a picture won't cut it (a video might).
And about the taping of video cameras on PCs, why aren't the LEDs hardwired to the camera: if the camera is ON, the LED is too, not relying on some software to turn it on. Seems like a no-brainer.
If I could just pop the hard drive in a new box and have everything adjust itself automagically, I would love to have the latest and greatest, even if I don't really need it
This is exactly how it works in Linux. I have some systems where I did this cycle a few times: update everything but the HD+OS (painless), update the HD copying the OS to new one (somewhat tricky), update the OS (painless).
In France all engineering schools, veterinarian school, business schools and a few others (not medical although that's not too different) work this way with really tough entrance exams that last about 3 months, 8 hours a day !!! Schools group by affinity and do one week of written tests and one week of oral ones. It works but it's hell.
For a long time Hispanics and African Americans were complaining these tests are unfair to them. [...] Almost all Indian parents know their children need to score 150 points over Whites to get admission to elite colleges
How can a test be able to guess your race ? Please explain as I've never actually seen those tests. Or is it just that the people selecting the candidates discard based on names or pictures ? In that case the problem lies not with the tests. Evidence ?
I was thinking the same. I've had Samsung, LG, Wiko, Archos, HTC and other cell phones and all of them have had a working FM radio. I use it daily and find it is one of the required selling points.
How long before we have a National ID card in the US?
I've always failed to see the common point between an ID card and a surveillance society. A card is necessary for your interactions with your gov. Even in the US without officially having one, you still have one in practice, but it's worse because it's an insecure mash-up, part driver's license, part SSID number, leading to a fuckton of identity theft. We've had ID cards in Europe for generations and we currently have a less fucked up and 'curious' state. Fight the establishment of a police state any which way you want, but the ID card is the wrong way to go at it.
When you say "wine sucked back then", you are right. Making good wine is difficult. But nowadays there's a whole gamut of analyses to understand the problems (too acid, not enough alcohol, not tannic enough, etc) and chemicals to remediate. Just go on a website that sell winemaking accessories to have an idea of the possible issues... And this means that nowadays there are no bad wines anymore. Even 2$ bottles are quite drinkable while 50 years ago you'd use them to clean rusted metal.
I got on the bitcoin bandwagon early on and let my miner run for a few weeks, but it kept showing a wallet of 0.00Bc, so I turned it off. I thought at the time it was either a rounding off or I did something wrong, turned it off and never used it again. Maybe I should fire it again see if that rounding error somehow turned into a winning lottery ticket. I'm sure it's on one of my many backups.
Well, I do that to make ends meet. The traditional way is to have a list of all the things in the house, signed by the renter upon arrival. Then upon departure you go again with him through the list: 10 forks, 6 chairs, etc... If something's missing and/or broken you keep part of the deposit. No need for cameras.
A black hole with the mass of the known universe would have a radius of 13.7 billion lightyears
...so, the radius of the observable universe ! Is there some deeper meaning to this or is that just a coincidence ?
"faith in atheism" ?!? Do you even listen to yourself ? Atheism is a LACK of faith.
Most of your examples are disingenous: they rely on the fact that at some point someone accepted a 'solution' or a product that runs only on a windows or a specific sub-product for it (like IE6). When a vendor comes to me with a 'solution' like this, I laugh him out of the room. Either it runs everywhere or it's open-source and I can work on it to make it so. I agree that being a small shop doesn't always work (but there's ccompetition), but having tens of thousands of PC can force vendors to CHANGE.
Teaching atheism ? Huh ?!? You are an atheist when you are born, and you stay this way unless 'taught' a religion with a belt or endless rote learning sessions.
Some do, to run CUDA on it. But often it's not standard graphic cards, but derived hardware such as Xeon Phi.
Well, for what it's worth, I used to read a lot of SF. But that decreased significantly with my starting use of the Internet in 95, then took a much greater hit with a kid 4 years ago. And work. And extra activities. From a book a week to one a month to now only a few a year. And what I just started yesterday is the 4th and final book in the Destiny's Crucible series by Olan Thorensen, a pretty good mix of SF, alternate history and game of throne.
Which is probably why the latest Androids are in charge-only mode when you plug them in. You have to select a menu to activate data exchange (MTP) or other USB modes.
I don't know about the U.S., but in Europe an ATM or credit card transaction will phone home over 100â, but below 99 it won't. Once you know that you can make some purchases faster.
Well, I have a big ID because I read /. for a few years before I decided to create an account. I've actually read ALL of /. posts. It'd been open for a few months when I discovered it on Usenet and I quickly browsed back through the backlog. And ever since it's been a morning ritual. And when I get back from vacation I quickly browse what I've missed.
Why isn't there a way to search my own posts ? And why is search in general still mostly broken ? I mean it's not like you have to use perl or something, right ? Right ?
And how about someone makes a phone with both a micro-USB plug and a USB-C plug ? Doesn't seem too hard. Add this to 4G, USA+Euro frequencies, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM radio, SDXC >=128Gb, resolution >=1920x, size >=5", a good selection of codecs, removable battery, RAM >=3Go, onboard mem >=32Go, and less than 150g. Doesn't seem to be asking for too much. The rest doesn't matter, costs extra and is sometimes a hindrance (facial recognition, hah!).
Well, in this case it's an ARCHOS 50b Cobalt/Lite, 32Gb, I got 2 weeks ago for 140€ and quite usable I must say.
Can't you do everything from your digital wallet on your computer, except convert to real cash ? Sorry, I never got on the cryptocurrency bandwagon.
Having an FM tuner is one of the requirements when I change my Android phone (the others being 4G, USA+Europe frequencies, 3.5mm headphone jack, SDXC >64Gb, screen >=1920x, screen >=5.5", removable battery, >2Go mem, >16Go onboard, 150g). This being said the last 3 phones I've had had shitty radios that kept on changing channel by themselves. I have no idea why. I suspected that the cabling of the earphones had something wrong and sent some fake 'next channel' signal, but it happens with different earphones and some phones are worse than others.
WTF are you talking about ? Never heard it for that meaning. Suze in french is a bitter liquor, made from gentian mountain flower. Pretty good.