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  1. The answer is no we won't. That sort of control is an illusion. Just ask Jean-Luc Picard. The only thing we can do is feed the AI input that we hope will have desirable results. Microsoft is already offering incentives to ensure its AI gets fed.

  2. The Nationalists and the Globalists duke it out while the Individualists are off doing their own thing. I have health problems, and that is a bigger damper on my liberty than any attempts by the two aforementioned groups to rope people like me into their schemes. Meanwhile I'm learning all I can about programming and have licenses for a number of game engines and asset libraries, so while I am dealing with health issues, I am pretty much off to the races in other respects and want nothing to do with those blowhards.

  3. Re: Same with most electronics on Most 'Genuine' Apple Chargers and Cables Sold on Amazon Are Fake, Apple Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    On the device end, a 3.0 cable and a 2.0 cable have different connectors. Still, I don't recommend buying anything that doesn't say 28/24 AWG, though they could be lying.

  4. Re: What's the Solution? on Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The key to understanding wat is an IoT device is in the word thing. Devices like network controllable light bulbs aren't multipurpose devices like a regular computer or an Arduino.

  5. Re: First lesson on Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter has new content coming in in real-time, but once that content is created, it is as duplicatable as the data that has infrequent updates.

  6. Not that much different than the ocean has looked at any given point in time? Sure the ocean has its interesting bits of space-time, but it is largely a snooze-fest.

  7. Better yet... arsenic.

  8. Re: So a bunch of retarded propaganda? on Stanford Researchers Release Virtual-Reality Simulation That Transports Users To Ocean of the Future (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Everything is chemicals! https://youtu.be/VGErC6QQdoc

  9. people take basic science classes throughout K-12.

  10. Re: Clever design on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The keyboard of the Surface tablet isn't small and easily lost.

  11. Just what do you think science is?

  12. Re: VR still holds promise for me, but VIVE = big on Stanford Researchers Release Virtual-Reality Simulation That Transports Users To Ocean of the Future (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Alright, so GameStop had a VIVE demo. The big problem for me was drawing a bead on a flying target an the aim was off.
    The two sensors and lame controllers are also no gos for an apartment. Now the PSVR's modular approach allows pieces to be acquired pieces at a time. I just bought a used PS Move and games mainly because I wanted to try out the Portal 2 optional feature, and I understand that the same Move periperals that work with the PS3 will work with the PS4 and VR. Too bad I have to keep more consoles around if I want to play older titles, but that could be reversed in the future. Also, augmented reality may make a number of things moot. Eventually I will be able to don goggles that correct to my eye prescription and add enhanced depth cues.

  13. Re: Thin? What kind of lunatic are you? on Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb (redmondpie.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem I am having with thin devices has little to do with traditional complaints like easy to break or battery life but how well the devices sit in my hands. Parts of my hands keep curling over onto the screen.

  14. Re: The commercial reads like a dystopia. on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    All utopias turn out to be dystopias.

  15. Re: So many important unaswered questions on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't tell from the video exactly how flimsy the dock is or whether there might be more storage or anything that can be handled by contactless connections.

  16. Re: Clever design on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well current devices aren't mobile with detachable controllers.

  17. Playing card to video game to bagel company on Nintendo NX Will Be Officially Revealed Tomorrow (gamespot.com) · · Score: 0

    Nintendo is exiting the game biz and exploring the possibilities of the bagel biz. NX is its first bagel flavor.

  18. Re:Cost? on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no hydrogen in the CO2, so some of the H2O is being converted too. Are there any other molecules being synthesized from any left over atoms?

  19. "how I hate the night"

  20. Where did that come from? I haven't seen any reporting that China is preventing money from leaving its borders.

  21. People throw around the term corruption so much it doesn't mean anything anymore. If a system plays by its own rules, it isn't corrupt. What evidence do you have that the Chinese system does not play by its own rules?

  22. What evidence have you seen of this?

  23. Re: An explanation of relativity on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, do you know of a really good explanation of relativity that does not introduce elements that fail to work given the initial phenomenon.

  24. Re:really lot on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the same way you get any acceleration at all while from your perspective remaining in a fixed position relative to the speed of light, but all explanations of the concepts I have seen botch the job.

  25. Re:Relativity on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Since every single explanation of relativity I keep seeing, describes it in a way in which there are elements that do not work given the original phenomenon, I don't know what is possible with acceleration. They keep describing motion relative to the speed of light in such a way that fails to conserve the fact that for the object moving, they aren't moving relative to the speed of light, for one thing.