Well I do not expect the Department of Defense to shrug, say "oh well..." and move along.
They will find a new partner (maybe Yahoo! Imaging or even Facebook) that might not do as well. Then when the resulting (inferior) AI decides a school bus is really an armored personnel carrier... What could possibly go wrong?
There was a very good look at this effect a few years back. Mirosoft emulated GE's technique of laddering everyone and cutting the bottom rungs. The problem wasn't a specific layoff but rather how this rolling layoff poisoned the climate. People were focused on their own survival rather than any team goals. This is long but worth reading...
You can get there! Facebook does allow you to block an article from any source that shows up in your feed.
Block them all! I keep a few fun ones but block every "media" on all sides. As a result my wall has returned to things that are typed in directly - not "shared" (for the most part). Messages from friends (real ones) are not swept away in a crap flood.
Safari is good service but relatively expensive, the price O'Reilly gives (after a bunch of click-thrus) is $399/year. Maybe in the past when the primary independent learning route was through books - it was a better deal (and indeed I did subscribe) but for the past decade or so books rank a distant third behind online documentation and discussion.
The last thing on my list is to "travel more". Perhaps if I were a billionaire corporate chairman or lived in a more open society (like China) but travel is now actually something to be endured. Not a pleasure onto itself.
This could be a boon to the economy! How many streaming web cams could Amazon Video host? Read your EULA carefully because participation might not be optional.
Same here - I was surprised to see this listed here - fewer and fewer remember DEC let alone PDP-8 or FOCAL.
Can't claim to remember much else about it other than it was similar to BASIC but my experience in the early 70's predated Gate's version. So I wouldn't have know that at the time.
One might gain an artistic appreciation of his drawings but it is difficult to view this as Mathematics.
The real story here is that he convinced someone at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to publish a book about him.
I don't doubt that he experiences visual phenomena, perhaps indistinguishable from hallucinations. Although such a unique perspective might conceivably give him an opportunity to understand math in a new way I'm skeptical this occurred. I'm afraid he has no more insight than a nautilus has into the fibonacci sequence.
>>>Are you willing to pay 2-3 times as much for the same product? Are you living in some fantasy world where if Apple's production costs double or triple (actually- they would go up substantially more than that)- they will still charge the same amount of money?
Labor is a small piece of the whole.
According to this: http://modmyi.com/content/5634-how-much-does-cost-build-iphone-4s.html (their facts are debatable but in the absence of real data let's pretend it is accurate) the manufacturing cost is $8 for an iPhone 4s. Pretending that's just labor, yes I would pay MORE than triple for an iPhone that can be built with fair labor.
They are no doubt bolstering that number with a limited time promotion.
For years I accessed their content on the iPhone and web. Their content is first class but then they demanded $45/month for all devices (including iPad). I found other avenues - no big deal. I did miss it on the iApple devices but nothing earth shattering.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, they advertised $0.99 for full access for two months. Not bad, I think their content is good enough I would pay something for it, but as the old joke goes: we're just negotiating the price. This has the side effect (they they're counting on) of inflating their numbers to no doubt set their advertising rate.
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program."
I hope the software intelligent program better language parses.
Slashdot Mirror
May that catchphrase work as well for Microsoft as it did for Oldsmobile...
"...the campaign that served as Olds’ final and famous (infamous?) death gasp: “Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile.”
Reference: https://godsofadvertising.word...
Well I do not expect the Department of Defense to shrug, say "oh well..." and move along.
They will find a new partner (maybe Yahoo! Imaging or even Facebook) that might not do as well. Then when the resulting (inferior) AI decides a school bus is really an armored personnel carrier... What could possibly go wrong?
For a further example please refer to Apple maps.
There was a very good look at this effect a few years back. Mirosoft emulated GE's technique of laddering everyone and cutting the bottom rungs. The problem wasn't a specific layoff but rather how this rolling layoff poisoned the climate. People were focused on their own survival rather than any team goals. This is long but worth reading...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
Here's an unencumbered link to the article:
http://www.cetusnews.com/busin...
You can get there! Facebook does allow you to block an article from any source that shows up in your feed.
Block them all! I keep a few fun ones but block every "media" on all sides. As a result my wall has returned to things that are typed in directly - not "shared"
(for the most part). Messages from friends (real ones) are not swept away in a crap flood.
Afford: yes.
Good value? No.
Safari is good service but relatively expensive, the price O'Reilly gives (after a bunch of click-thrus) is $399/year. Maybe in the past when the primary independent learning route was through books - it was a better deal (and indeed I did subscribe) but for the past decade or so books rank a distant third behind online documentation and discussion.
Why do you suppose Safari was for sale?
The last thing on my list is to "travel more". Perhaps if I were a billionaire corporate chairman or lived in a more open society (like China) but travel is now actually something to be endured. Not a pleasure onto itself.
This could be a boon to the economy! How many streaming web cams could Amazon Video host? Read your EULA carefully because participation might not be optional.
Same here - I was surprised to see this listed here - fewer and fewer remember DEC let alone PDP-8 or FOCAL.
Can't claim to remember much else about it other than it was similar to BASIC but my experience in the early 70's predated Gate's version. So I wouldn't have know that at the time.
+1 insightful (oh for Mod points) on " they have shadow accounts on you even if you don't open one yourself"
I would like to see an OpenCellular network spring up for those of us already connected, but connected through giant monopolistic profit centers.
Since these existing ISPs aren't really serving the needs of my community - shouldn't we have the ability to replace them?
When Atlas hit the door I couldn't help wonder who was locked in an interior room when the power surge hit the research facility.
Look for it at a busy London intersection. Watching people.
I was unaware that US law would have any standing in the UK. Of course any DMCA takedown "command" can be ignored. Why not?
One might gain an artistic appreciation of his drawings but it is difficult to view this as Mathematics.
The real story here is that he convinced someone at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to publish a book about him.
I don't doubt that he experiences visual phenomena, perhaps indistinguishable from hallucinations. Although such a unique perspective might conceivably give him an opportunity to understand math in a new way I'm skeptical this occurred. I'm afraid he has no more insight than a nautilus has into the fibonacci sequence.
I still have my quadrophonic stereo somewhere in the cellar.
Every Facebook has its Winklevoss brothers....
just now in wheel form.
IThe definition of "electrocution" is "death or injury from electric shock"
Really? In English? I don't know where you getting your dictionary, but the several I referenced stated:
Definition of ELECTROCUTE
1: to execute (a criminal) by electricity
2: to kill by electric shock
Here's an example: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocute
Prefer a UK reference? http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/electrocute?q=electrocute
Much as I hate to side with an AC, so far no one has recovered from an electrocution.
Q: How does a maniac get through the jungle?
A: Of course, he takes the psychopath!
Look, the FBI doesn't need to build a database when Facebook/Instagram is so pervasive.
So... this comes to light just after Facebook closes on a 1B purchase of Instagram.
Where's that government money going again?
>>>Are you willing to pay 2-3 times as much for the same product? Are you living in some fantasy world where if Apple's production costs double or triple (actually- they would go up substantially more than that)- they will still charge the same amount of money?
Labor is a small piece of the whole.
According to this: http://modmyi.com/content/5634-how-much-does-cost-build-iphone-4s.html (their facts are debatable but in the absence of real data let's pretend it is accurate) the manufacturing cost is $8 for an iPhone 4s. Pretending that's just labor, yes I would pay MORE than triple for an iPhone that can be built with fair labor.
Let me get this straight, book #99 on the print list (Reamde) didn't make it onto the ebook top 100.
Yeah, that's news. Actually, it *barely* made it onto the top 100 printed book list. At least it wasn't DFL (dead last).
They are no doubt bolstering that number with a limited time promotion.
For years I accessed their content on the iPhone and web. Their content is first class but then they demanded $45/month for all devices (including iPad). I found other avenues - no big deal. I did miss it on the iApple devices but nothing earth shattering.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, they advertised $0.99 for full access for two months. Not bad, I think their content is good enough I would pay something for it, but as the old joke goes: we're just negotiating the price. This has the side effect (they they're counting on) of inflating their numbers to no doubt set their advertising rate.
When the special is gone, so am I.
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would like to make that about a billion with a new software intelligent program."
I hope the software intelligent program better language parses.
OMG, you were *so* close...
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-iPod