Amazon is well placed with their service being bundled in with all the other Prime stuff. The next evolution of all of this will be when the streamers get pinched for cash and start licensing their original catalog to each other in syndication. Then it'll be a race to the bottom again.
I haven't had a chance to verify it, but in the thread about the Pixel's loss of the headphone jack someone mentioned it was the chipset manufacturers mandating the feature be deprecated. This seemed odd, because while I could see why Google or Apple might want to sell lots of expensive and easily lost Bluetooth earbuds and dongles, I didn't get a chance to see what Intel might have in the game
At least it is trivial to block them, now. They already seem to have dried up for anything remotely legitimate, mostly just scams these days. Once the people that remember the days of a telemarketing call that wasn't necessarily a scam are gone I can't imagine them being worth the investment from whatever shady people.
Pertaining the construction: For hobby woodworking it is funny to look up European plans and when you convert the metric numbers to imperial to see how to adjust it you realize they're just using metric equivalents of common imperial sizes. So... the materials are all standardized already, it'll just be whatever we call them.
You could just fill the 1/2 tsp half full... or stop using spoons and use your hands. It doesn't take too long to stop needing to measure things, and unless you're baking something odd from scratch it doesn't generally matter much if you're off a bit.
It is pretty strange... for all their faults, the mainstream media is going to be about as good as you can expect on quickly vetting information, and there's no way that Facebook and Google would be able to verify things any faster without an equal amount of manpower. The thesis that they should is absurd.
Easy to justify if it is their primary PC. I wouldn't spend that much, but that's just because I prefer having a desktop. If I didn't it'd be easy to justify it plus some Bluetooth keyboards or whatnot.
You don't even have to get that fancy... like in Westworld you just set some parameters for what the simulacrum can even try to understand and have it ignore anything else. "That doesn't look like anything to me"
Yeah, as another poster said above with the SimCity analogy, if the Sims pointed out that simulating their reality would require something magnificently more complex than possible in their world to generate it, they'd be correct.
The most effective programming in my group comes from pairs of an analyst and a developer and have worked together for a long time. I think of it like a spotter/sniper team.
We don't generally eat eagles... the food chain can be considered to have multiple apexes, of which you're right in that we're probably at the top of the biggest one.
Because analytics decided you weren't interesting because you weren't in an area where it mattered if you flipped over to Trump or they didn't think it likely that you would. If you live in Alabama, no one is spending money to get you to vote Republican for president. Either you didn't matter or they knew enough about how you'd vote not to bother.
I don't have a lot of flat pack stuff, but putting it together always makes me consider if I shouldn't just grab the kreg jig and screw everything together instead of using the dowels and bolts.
Well, Amazon runs cloud services for pretty much everything. So, if they treat the voice activated digital assistant as a sort of OS (I guess like the movie Her?) that can hop into the cloud and take care of your banking that is being run off of their servers already, then Chase (supports Alexa banking!) gets a leg up on Citi (didn't pay for the license, but switch to Chase and get a free month of Amazon Prime!) or whatever and Amazon gets a slice of everything else you do online that isn't direct e-commerce. They probably see being the dominant voice assistant as being the next search engine/OS wars of decades prior. And, sure, if you can really talk to the thing like a person you'll probably develop an irrational emotional attachment to it and then they've got customer lock in. So that puts them into as dominant a position as MS used to have and Google has in terms of platform, while also being the company you buy your mail order groceries from.
So your social circle is Anti-Trump enough that the algorithms don't even try to sway you. If you have enough racist uncles and high school classmates who never went to college you will get a fair amount of it. Read some far right stuff while logged into Facebook, wait for the sponsored ads to pop up, and click on some of them, and it'll put more in. Get tired of it and only click on pets doing silly things and it dies back down to whatever your friends are into. It only shows you stuff it thinks you'll like or someone has paid enough for to show you.
I can only assume they think the technology will be cross applicable to other projects on their wish list. Probably some sort of AI or pseudo-AI to take it from a toy to being Jarvis from Iron Man, except he mostly tries to solve your problems by buying things from Amazon.
Yeah that's why I questioned the utility of everyone freezing their credit initially when the breach happened... anyone looking to unfreeze your account has enough information that they will be able to play dumb long enough with a customer service rep to get things unlocked... "uh, no, I don't remember what security question I used"
Since it is on Netflix outside the US, I'm going to see if previous seasons end up there and just stay a season behind. Many AMC shows work this way, too.
You can often buy season passes to shows on iTunes or Amazon. That's probably about as close as you'll get to a la carte. It ends up being cheaper to buy a streaming sub and binge the show if you're even mildly interested in anything else in their streaming package.
Eh... but already at current tech you have people decrying the tests for downs syndrome and so on, aligning it with eugenics. In Star Trek, whose backstory has eugenics wars, they may have some rather unique ethics about messing with babies and what counts as a defect. DS9 went into it a little bit with Bashir but I'm afraid I don't recall all the details.
You just go to Settings > Battery to see what has been using it up the most. I'm not certain, but I doubt an app could measure how much battery power the others used in iOS the way they have things split out on the security end of things.
I don't think you have a right to refuse to read the assigned material in a collegiate course. It'd be like creationists demanding biology degrees while refusing to read the material. And if the students resort to calling in their parents in college that's almost reason enough to kick them out of the course right there...
Regulatory compliance is kind of like that... jobs to ensure that procedures follow the rules. Many of the rules exist for good reason but it still seems odd at times. Then when you see a politician squawking about eliminating job killing regulations... well that'll eliminate compliance jobs and I doubt the money is going to go to hiring more worker bees down the line. With the AI and robot stuff the compliance decision tree would be more like "Do I need to hire an accountant, or just use TurboTax?" If the tax regulations are simplified, the choice would be "is my tax situation complicated enough to need TurboTax or is mailing in my W2 and calling it a day sufficient?"
While having a phone that is also a computer is great, it has to be affecting the marketability of these that (presumably subsidized) tablets have become so cheap. When an Amazon Fire can be had for $40 it has to make it harder to justify why a phone would be worth $1000. Sure the iPhone X is more powerful, but if the use case is Facebook and Netflix...
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Amazon is well placed with their service being bundled in with all the other Prime stuff. The next evolution of all of this will be when the streamers get pinched for cash and start licensing their original catalog to each other in syndication. Then it'll be a race to the bottom again.
I haven't had a chance to verify it, but in the thread about the Pixel's loss of the headphone jack someone mentioned it was the chipset manufacturers mandating the feature be deprecated. This seemed odd, because while I could see why Google or Apple might want to sell lots of expensive and easily lost Bluetooth earbuds and dongles, I didn't get a chance to see what Intel might have in the game
At least it is trivial to block them, now. They already seem to have dried up for anything remotely legitimate, mostly just scams these days. Once the people that remember the days of a telemarketing call that wasn't necessarily a scam are gone I can't imagine them being worth the investment from whatever shady people.
Pertaining the construction: For hobby woodworking it is funny to look up European plans and when you convert the metric numbers to imperial to see how to adjust it you realize they're just using metric equivalents of common imperial sizes. So... the materials are all standardized already, it'll just be whatever we call them.
You could just fill the 1/2 tsp half full... or stop using spoons and use your hands. It doesn't take too long to stop needing to measure things, and unless you're baking something odd from scratch it doesn't generally matter much if you're off a bit.
It is pretty strange... for all their faults, the mainstream media is going to be about as good as you can expect on quickly vetting information, and there's no way that Facebook and Google would be able to verify things any faster without an equal amount of manpower. The thesis that they should is absurd.
Easy to justify if it is their primary PC. I wouldn't spend that much, but that's just because I prefer having a desktop. If I didn't it'd be easy to justify it plus some Bluetooth keyboards or whatnot.
You don't even have to get that fancy... like in Westworld you just set some parameters for what the simulacrum can even try to understand and have it ignore anything else. "That doesn't look like anything to me"
Yeah, as another poster said above with the SimCity analogy, if the Sims pointed out that simulating their reality would require something magnificently more complex than possible in their world to generate it, they'd be correct.
The most effective programming in my group comes from pairs of an analyst and a developer and have worked together for a long time. I think of it like a spotter/sniper team.
We don't generally eat eagles... the food chain can be considered to have multiple apexes, of which you're right in that we're probably at the top of the biggest one.
Because analytics decided you weren't interesting because you weren't in an area where it mattered if you flipped over to Trump or they didn't think it likely that you would. If you live in Alabama, no one is spending money to get you to vote Republican for president. Either you didn't matter or they knew enough about how you'd vote not to bother.
I don't have a lot of flat pack stuff, but putting it together always makes me consider if I shouldn't just grab the kreg jig and screw everything together instead of using the dowels and bolts.
Well, Amazon runs cloud services for pretty much everything. So, if they treat the voice activated digital assistant as a sort of OS (I guess like the movie Her?) that can hop into the cloud and take care of your banking that is being run off of their servers already, then Chase (supports Alexa banking!) gets a leg up on Citi (didn't pay for the license, but switch to Chase and get a free month of Amazon Prime!) or whatever and Amazon gets a slice of everything else you do online that isn't direct e-commerce. They probably see being the dominant voice assistant as being the next search engine/OS wars of decades prior. And, sure, if you can really talk to the thing like a person you'll probably develop an irrational emotional attachment to it and then they've got customer lock in. So that puts them into as dominant a position as MS used to have and Google has in terms of platform, while also being the company you buy your mail order groceries from.
So your social circle is Anti-Trump enough that the algorithms don't even try to sway you. If you have enough racist uncles and high school classmates who never went to college you will get a fair amount of it. Read some far right stuff while logged into Facebook, wait for the sponsored ads to pop up, and click on some of them, and it'll put more in. Get tired of it and only click on pets doing silly things and it dies back down to whatever your friends are into. It only shows you stuff it thinks you'll like or someone has paid enough for to show you.
I can only assume they think the technology will be cross applicable to other projects on their wish list. Probably some sort of AI or pseudo-AI to take it from a toy to being Jarvis from Iron Man, except he mostly tries to solve your problems by buying things from Amazon.
Yeah that's why I questioned the utility of everyone freezing their credit initially when the breach happened... anyone looking to unfreeze your account has enough information that they will be able to play dumb long enough with a customer service rep to get things unlocked... "uh, no, I don't remember what security question I used"
Since it is on Netflix outside the US, I'm going to see if previous seasons end up there and just stay a season behind. Many AMC shows work this way, too.
You can often buy season passes to shows on iTunes or Amazon. That's probably about as close as you'll get to a la carte. It ends up being cheaper to buy a streaming sub and binge the show if you're even mildly interested in anything else in their streaming package.
Eh... but already at current tech you have people decrying the tests for downs syndrome and so on, aligning it with eugenics. In Star Trek, whose backstory has eugenics wars, they may have some rather unique ethics about messing with babies and what counts as a defect. DS9 went into it a little bit with Bashir but I'm afraid I don't recall all the details.
You just go to Settings > Battery to see what has been using it up the most. I'm not certain, but I doubt an app could measure how much battery power the others used in iOS the way they have things split out on the security end of things.
I don't think you have a right to refuse to read the assigned material in a collegiate course. It'd be like creationists demanding biology degrees while refusing to read the material. And if the students resort to calling in their parents in college that's almost reason enough to kick them out of the course right there...
Regulatory compliance is kind of like that... jobs to ensure that procedures follow the rules. Many of the rules exist for good reason but it still seems odd at times. Then when you see a politician squawking about eliminating job killing regulations... well that'll eliminate compliance jobs and I doubt the money is going to go to hiring more worker bees down the line. With the AI and robot stuff the compliance decision tree would be more like "Do I need to hire an accountant, or just use TurboTax?" If the tax regulations are simplified, the choice would be "is my tax situation complicated enough to need TurboTax or is mailing in my W2 and calling it a day sufficient?"
Why would you think that?
While having a phone that is also a computer is great, it has to be affecting the marketability of these that (presumably subsidized) tablets have become so cheap. When an Amazon Fire can be had for $40 it has to make it harder to justify why a phone would be worth $1000. Sure the iPhone X is more powerful, but if the use case is Facebook and Netflix...