Unicode 8 supports 120 scripts and 14 collections of other symbols of which Emoji is one and typographical decorations --- dingbats --- another. Once you admit that a Unicode graphic can be purposeful, decorative or both, the battle against the admission of Emoji is lost. U 9.0 and Post 9.0 Emoji Candidates
Emoji is explicitly Asian in origin --- and that seems to be one of things ticking off the geek here --- but combining words and pictures in casual messaging to provide a touch of color or save some space is very old in the Western world, and doesn't really need a defense.
The geek who complains about this sort of thing tends to come across as humorless and prissy and a bit out of touch.
People don't use services like GMail or Google Docs or Office 365 or Dropbox or Facebook because of the web UIs.
Just to be clear on this, Office 365 is the full standard aka "professional" suite of MS Office apps, including Outlook, locally resident, sold as a subscription service. The web component is there, but still secondary.
A primer on post employment restrictions for the geek who has no idea about how the federal government really works.
There are statutory prohibitions on a former government employee that generally prevent her from ''switching sides'' after leaving the government. The following are the main restrictions:
Lifetime Ban - An employee is prohibited from representing anyone else before the government on a particular matter involving specific parties in which she participated personally and substantially.
Two-Year Ban - An employee is prohibited for two years from representing another person on a particular matter involving specific parties which was pending under her responsibility during her last year of government service.
One-Year Ban - A senior employee includes Executive Level officials and all other employees whose rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 86.5% of the rate for Level II of the Executive Schedule, which is $158,554.00 as of January 2015
So, how long till the current head of the DoJ announces he is resigning his current position to join the Board of Directors of Time Warner?
The geek has tunnel vision.
There is more to the DOJ than Anti-trust.
[Lynch] joined the Eastern District as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. From 1994 to 1998, she served as the chief of the Long Island office and worked on several political corruption cases...
In 1999, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
2001, Lynch left the U.S. Attorney's office to become a partner at Hogan & Hartson (later Hogan Lovells). She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Barack Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Hogan & Hartson has been around since 1904 and even before the merger was about as big and prestigious a law firm as you'll find anywhere in the world. Lynch has far better options than TWC.
Lynch's office prosecuted Republican congressman Michael Grimm; prosecuted Democratic politicians Pedro Espada Jr. and William Boyland, Jr.; investigated Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, resulting in a US$7 billion settlement; and was involved in the US$1.2 billion settlement with HSBC over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
While Lynch was US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, she supervised the investigation into senior FIFA officials from its earliest stages. The investigation culminated in the indictment of 14 senior FIFA officials and sports marketing executives shortly after Lynch was confirmed as Attorney General. For her work in the 2015 FIFA corruption case, Lynch was presented with the 3rd annual Golden Blazer by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies.
Lynch is the second woman to become Attorney General and the first African-American woman to become Attorney General. Growing up, her mother was a school librarian and her father was a Baptist minister. Lynch earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
"We must be able to monitor everybody. Let's nuke this communication system. Tell the sheeple something about organized crime. That will suffice".
There are words the geek needs to erase from his vocabulary because they do not play well to those outside his own community. Sheep (in all its variations as posted to Slashdot) is one of them.
Yep and tons of companies are switching to alternatives. Microsoft is losing it's grip fast.
Reality bites.
It is not an easy time to be in the tech business, even Google would admit to that. But Microsoft remains strong where it has always been strong.
Microsoft currently has three reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes (covering Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, and Dynamics), Intelligent Cloud (including Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Enterprise Services), and More Personal Computing (covering Windows, hardware, and Xbox, as well as search and advertising).
Productivity and Business Processes revenue was $6.5 billion, up 1 percent year-on-year, with operating income of $3.0 billion, down 7 percent. Gross margin also fell 4 percent. A large part of this drop was due to the strong dollar; in constant currency, revenue was up 6 percent and gross margin up 1 percent. The quarter was marked by an unusually strong performance from Office consumer products and cloud services; after many quarters of large year-on-year declines...in the most recent quarter Office consumer revenue was up by 3 percent (6 percent constant currency). Office commercial revenue was unchanged (up 7 percent in constant currency).
Both commercial and consumer Office 365 offerings appear to be doing well. Commercial seats are up 57 percent year-on-year. Consumer subscriptions have nearly doubled, from 12.4 million to 22.2 million. The Dynamics range also continues to grow strongly, with revenue up 4 percent (9 percent constant currency).
Intelligent Cloud revenue was up 3 percent to $6.1 billion (up 8 percent in constant currency), but operating income was sharply down by 14 percent to $2.2 billion. Server product and cloud service revenue was unchanged (though up 3 percent constant currency). Enterprise Services revenue was up 11 percent (15 percent constant currency). Among server products, the company saw gains in subscription revenue offset by declines in transactional purchases. Azure revenue was up 120 percent (constant currency), with Azure compute and SQL usage doubling year-over-year,
Personal Computing revenue was $9.5 billion, up 1 percent (3 percent constant currency), and operating income was also up 57 percent to $1.7 billion. As with Office, the Windows figures showed surprising strength in consumer markets: Windows OEM non-Pro revenue was up 15 percent year-on-year, outpacing the consumer PC market, driven by a higher volume of premium device sales..
What are we going to do with the massive unemployment the horseless carriages will cause? the breeders, the whip makers, the blacksmiths, the hay balers, the veterinarians, the reinmakers, the shit shovelers.....
These analogies are nonsense.
The blacksmith was repairing plows, threshers and other farm machiney beginning around 1860 --- and began moving into auto repair around 1900. There is a reason why early automobiles looked like horseless carriages: they were using the same roads and being built and maintained by the same people.
The modern farm tractor, with PTO and three-point hitch, doesn't appear in recognizable form until the late 1930s. There were about 18 million draft animals in service on American farms in 1930 and less than one million tractors. Trust me on this, there was plenty of shit left to shovel in the thirties, just not so much in the cities.
Greedy fuckers will make sure this never makes its way into anything I own.
I'm betting your grandfather believed that the automakers and Big Oil were surpressing the magic carburator that would take his Ford V-8 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Forgetting that great mileage means great sales for big sedans, pick-up trucks, sport cars, travel trailers, and other heavy weight or high performance vehicles and accessories.
New tech means new products. These new batteries will find their way into everything you own.
Searching Amazon.com for "lithium ion flashlight batteries" --- the most generic of all replacement batteries --- will return 30,000 hits, an endless stream of batteries, rechargers, flashlights and other gadgets, scattered across about twenty departments or divisions of the Amazon catalog.
But wait... these are being used as medical devices! You can't make them better and cheaper over time, the government regulators say so!!!
I do hope this was intended as a joke, because I have grown rather tired of hearing the geek talk like a quack when the subject turns to medicine.
Top 10 Supply Items by Total Spend - January 2015 Tracks 10 supply items, often known as ''physician preference items,'' based on total amount spent on those items during the month by hospitals and other provider organizations.
OUYA and GameStick consoles run Android/Linux, and Steam Machine runs a customized Debian GNU/Linux.
Does anyone, anywhere, have good numbers for Steam Machine sales? Because I can't find anything that suggests any movement there. Sales through Amazon.com are at rock bottom. Alienware ASM 100 Desktop Console
With all the talk of brittle steel, rivets et. al., RMS Olympic was a virtual twin to the Titanic and remained in service for 24 years.
On 9 October 1912 White Star withdrew Olympic from service and returned her to her builders at Belfast to be refitted to incorporate lessons learned from the Titanic disaster 6 months prior, and improve safety. The number of lifeboats carried by Olympic was increased from twenty to sixty four and extra davits were installed along the boat deck to accommodate them. Also, an inner watertight skin was constructed in the boiler and engine rooms, to create a double hull. Five of the watertight bulkheads were extended up to B-Deck, extending to the entire height of the hull. This corrected a flaw in the original design, in which the bulkheads only rose up as far as E or D-Deck, a short distance above the waterline. This flaw had been exposed during Titanic's sinking, where water spilled over the top of the bulkheads as the ship sank and flooded subsequent compartments. In addition, an extra bulkhead was added to subdivide the electrical dynamo room, bringing the total number of watertight compartments to seventeen. Improvements were also made to the ship's pumping apparatus. These modifications meant that Olympic could survive a collision similar to that of Titanic, in that her first six compartments could be breached and the ship could remain afloat.
At the same time, Olympic's B-Deck underwent a refit, which included extra cabins (the parlour suites which proved popular on the Titanic were added to the Olympic), more cabins were fitted with private bathing facilities, and a Cafe Parisian (another addition that had proved popular on the Titanic) was added, offering another dining option to first class passengers. With these changes, Olympic's gross tonnage rose to 46,359 tons, 31 tons more than Titanic's.
Problems with radio communication --- obsolete technologies, monopoly power, the need for regulation --- all became clear after the loss of Titanic. Ir is a fascinating story and one the geek should know better.
I think they are deluding themselves. What I read is that their VPN region block has been utterly ineffective, except for a small and inconsequential group of people who don't know how to get around their VPN blockade.
That inconsequential group of people numbers somewhere around 46 million.
The VPN is a geek thing --- an added layer of complexity and expense which may or may not work around the block. Simplicity is what sells streaming media, instant access to a broad range of programming, though not necessarily access to every title in the 800 page catalog of Moves Unlimited.
Disney ran out of other people's intellectual property to rip off, so now they're ripping off their own? This movie will run into all the same traps that all movies which anthropmorphicize wild animals run into.
That trap would be the $1 Billon gross in first-run theatrical release for Zootopia? The 98% Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes?
IBM - Watson, a computer that can win at Jeopardy
Google - AlphaGo, a computer that wins at Go
Microsoft - Tay, a racist chatbot
Jeopardy is a trivia game.
Key words and phrases to which you respond with a factoid. To be fun and playable for the audience the boundaries of this "universe" have to be quite small.
Go is a game which is played with perfect information and clearly defined rules. It is a fascinating problem in its own right but it is not the same problem as recognizing a face or an object in a purely arbitrary setting.
What is needed, however, is the implementation of the Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, or ET3. .
The main obstacle is the littleness of the current political and technical leadership, which is stuck firmly in the past centuries.
The first pneumatic tube delivery systems went into service in the 1860s --- but parcel delivery is essentially a "last mile" problem and that is where things start to get expensive. ET3 is irrelevant in this context.
Microsoft's AI keeps embarrassing them. It's like they thought their corporate image problem from being a ham-handed OS monopoly wasn't big enough: they needed to automate gaffes.
It is trivially easy to get a instant mod-up on Slashdot by pointing to the Microsoft's AI's occasional mistakes and not its successes. But most of the time Microsoft's AI seems to be getting it right. If you have something better, put it up where we can see it.
They always seem to test these things in desert-dry, pool-table flat environments, where automated delivery seems least urgent or necessary. The bike and pedestrian paths are there, after all, to see that students get a little exercise on campus.
Sounds like this was just a PR stunt to remind people that movie theaters still exist. I think.
Book the right movies and you can fill a lot of seats.
Currently Zootopia is the highest grossing film of 2016. Just with the six [animated] films released since the beginning of the 2010s, Disney has gained $3,855,100,000; this is more than the total gross of Disney's Renaissance Era.
Ars Technica posted two substantial stories about Keys and his conviction.
''When this court tries to make sense of what Mr. Keys did for a limited period of time, it was out of pique, it was out of anger at his former employer,'' US District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said at the conclusion of the hours-long hearing.
''He arrogated to himself the decision to affect the content of a journalistic publication. In practical effect, at least with respect to the Los Angeles Times webpage, the effect was relatively modest and did not do much to actually damage the reputation of that publication. But the intent was to wreak further damage which could have had further consequences.''
As Ars reported earlier, Keys was accused of handing over a username and password for former employer KTXL Fox 40's content management system (CMS) to members of Anonymous and instructing people there to ''fuck some shit up.''
[The prosecutor] in his final statement to the judge, lambasted Keys, pointing directly at him several times.
''This is a person, for whom his own aggrandizement, is willing to attack any institution that threatens him: the press, broadcast media, print media, law enforcement, the jury system,'' he said. ''This wasn't mischief, this was a rage driven by profound narcissism.''
It is laudable, but only if the money is yours --- such as in this case, for example. The government does not have "its own" money --- it confiscates it from captive taxpayers. Funds thus obtained should not be spent on simple charity
The taxpayer is captive only in the sense that he is expected to financially support a government and a society which now and again will make decisions with which he disagrees, among them charitable support for the elderly, the poor and disabled.
Until you or someone in your family has tried to obtain disability benefits through SSA/SSI you can have no idea what an ordeal it can be --- or the restrictions that come with it. Consider yourself fortunate if you do not have to go to Legal Aid for help for an appeal before an administrative law judge.
You can live modestly on an SSI budget, but those student loans will never be repaid, and it is fantasy to pretend otherwise.
That way everyone can enjoy it and no one can steal it.
It is enormously difficult to capture a sense of depth and texture in a scan. It is no coincidence that Jackson Pollack began as a muralist. The 23" 16:9 screen doesn't do him justice.
Slashdot Mirror
I am asking for the count of all the possible valid combinations in Unicode with explanation.
1,111,998: 17 planes x 65,536 characters per plane - 2048 surrogates - 66 noncharacters
109,384 code points are actually assigned in Unicode 6.0.
How many characters can be mapped with Unicode?
There is plenty of room for growth here.
Unicode 8 supports 120 scripts and 14 collections of other symbols of which Emoji is one and typographical decorations --- dingbats --- another. Once you admit that a Unicode graphic can be purposeful, decorative or both, the battle against the admission of Emoji is lost. U 9.0 and Post 9.0 Emoji Candidates
Emoji is explicitly Asian in origin --- and that seems to be one of things ticking off the geek here --- but combining words and pictures in casual messaging to provide a touch of color or save some space is very old in the Western world, and doesn't really need a defense.
The geek who complains about this sort of thing tends to come across as humorless and prissy and a bit out of touch.
People don't use services like GMail or Google Docs or Office 365 or Dropbox or Facebook because of the web UIs.
Just to be clear on this, Office 365 is the full standard aka "professional" suite of MS Office apps, including Outlook, locally resident, sold as a subscription service. The web component is there, but still secondary.
There are statutory prohibitions on a former government employee that generally prevent her from ''switching sides'' after leaving the government. The following are the main restrictions:
Lifetime Ban - An employee is prohibited from representing anyone else before the government on a particular matter involving specific parties in which she participated personally and substantially.
Two-Year Ban - An employee is prohibited for two years from representing another person on a particular matter involving specific parties which was pending under her responsibility during her last year of government service.
One-Year Ban - A senior employee includes Executive Level officials and all other employees whose rate of basic pay is equal to or greater than 86.5% of the rate for Level II of the Executive Schedule, which is $158,554.00 as of January 2015
Leaving Government -- Post-Employment Restrictions
So, how long till the current head of the DoJ announces he is resigning his current position to join the Board of Directors of Time Warner?
The geek has tunnel vision.
There is more to the DOJ than Anti-trust.
[Lynch] joined the Eastern District as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. From 1994 to 1998, she served as the chief of the Long Island office and worked on several political corruption cases...
In 1999, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
2001, Lynch left the U.S. Attorney's office to become a partner at Hogan & Hartson (later Hogan Lovells). She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Barack Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Hogan & Hartson has been around since 1904 and even before the merger was about as big and prestigious a law firm as you'll find anywhere in the world.
Lynch has far better options than TWC.
Lynch's office prosecuted Republican congressman Michael Grimm; prosecuted Democratic politicians Pedro Espada Jr. and William Boyland, Jr.; investigated Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, resulting in a US$7 billion settlement; and was involved in the US$1.2 billion settlement with HSBC over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
While Lynch was US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, she supervised the investigation into senior FIFA officials from its earliest stages. The investigation culminated in the indictment of 14 senior FIFA officials and sports marketing executives shortly after Lynch was confirmed as Attorney General. For her work in the 2015 FIFA corruption case, Lynch was presented with the 3rd annual Golden Blazer by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies.
Lynch is the second woman to become Attorney General and the first African-American woman to become Attorney General. Growing up, her mother was a school librarian and her father was a Baptist minister. Lynch earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Loretta Lynch
"We must be able to monitor everybody. Let's nuke this communication system. Tell the sheeple something about organized crime. That will suffice".
There are words the geek needs to erase from his vocabulary because they do not play well to those outside his own community. Sheep (in all its variations as posted to Slashdot) is one of them.
Yep and tons of companies are switching to alternatives. Microsoft is losing it's grip fast.
Reality bites.
It is not an easy time to be in the tech business, even Google would admit to that. But Microsoft remains strong where it has always been strong.
Microsoft currently has three reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes (covering Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, and Dynamics), Intelligent Cloud (including Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Enterprise Services), and More Personal Computing (covering Windows, hardware, and Xbox, as well as search and advertising).
Productivity and Business Processes revenue was $6.5 billion, up 1 percent year-on-year, with operating income of $3.0 billion, down 7 percent. Gross margin also fell 4 percent. A large part of this drop was due to the strong dollar; in constant currency, revenue was up 6 percent and gross margin up 1 percent. The quarter was marked by an unusually strong performance from Office consumer products and cloud services; after many quarters of large year-on-year declines...in the most recent quarter Office consumer revenue was up by 3 percent (6 percent constant currency). Office commercial revenue was unchanged (up 7 percent in constant currency).
Both commercial and consumer Office 365 offerings appear to be doing well. Commercial seats are up 57 percent year-on-year. Consumer subscriptions have nearly doubled, from 12.4 million to 22.2 million. The Dynamics range also continues to grow strongly, with revenue up 4 percent (9 percent constant currency).
Intelligent Cloud revenue was up 3 percent to $6.1 billion (up 8 percent in constant currency), but operating income was sharply down by 14 percent to $2.2 billion. Server product and cloud service revenue was unchanged (though up 3 percent constant currency). Enterprise Services revenue was up 11 percent (15 percent constant currency). Among server products, the company saw gains in subscription revenue offset by declines in transactional purchases. Azure revenue was up 120 percent (constant currency), with Azure compute and SQL usage doubling year-over-year,
Personal Computing revenue was $9.5 billion, up 1 percent (3 percent constant currency), and operating income was also up 57 percent to $1.7 billion. As with Office, the Windows figures showed surprising strength in consumer markets: Windows OEM non-Pro revenue was up 15 percent year-on-year, outpacing the consumer PC market, driven by a higher volume of premium device sales. .
Microsoft's $20.5B quarter: Office up, Surface up, cloud booming
What are we going to do with the massive unemployment the horseless carriages will cause? the breeders, the whip makers, the blacksmiths, the hay balers, the veterinarians, the reinmakers, the shit shovelers.....
These analogies are nonsense.
The blacksmith was repairing plows, threshers and other farm machiney beginning around 1860 --- and began moving into auto repair around 1900. There is a reason why early automobiles looked like horseless carriages: they were using the same roads and being built and maintained by the same people.
The modern farm tractor, with PTO and three-point hitch, doesn't appear in recognizable form until the late 1930s. There were about 18 million draft animals in service on American farms in 1930 and less than one million tractors. Trust me on this, there was plenty of shit left to shovel in the thirties, just not so much in the cities.
Do you actually think that Apple wouldn't simply raise their prices so that their profit margin stayed the same? In what world?
This world.
You can live with lower profits. But to survive you must have sales. That sets a limit to how high you can raise prices.
Greedy fuckers will make sure this never makes its way into anything I own.
I'm betting your grandfather believed that the automakers and Big Oil were surpressing the magic carburator that would take his Ford V-8 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Forgetting that great mileage means great sales for big sedans, pick-up trucks, sport cars, travel trailers, and other heavy weight or high performance vehicles and accessories.
New tech means new products. These new batteries will find their way into everything you own.
Searching Amazon.com for "lithium ion flashlight batteries" --- the most generic of all replacement batteries --- will return 30,000 hits, an endless stream of batteries, rechargers, flashlights and other gadgets, scattered across about twenty departments or divisions of the Amazon catalog.
Whatever happened to telecommuting? It was suppose to be the wave of the future but seemingly fell flat.
If your daily commute is a city bus, chances are quite good your lifestyle is closer to Rosa Parks than Steve Jobs.
But wait... these are being used as medical devices! You can't make them better and cheaper over time, the government regulators say so!!!
I do hope this was intended as a joke, because I have grown rather tired of hearing the geek talk like a quack when the subject turns to medicine.
Top 10 Supply Items by Total Spend - January 2015 Tracks 10 supply items, often known as ''physician preference items,'' based on total amount spent on those items during the month by hospitals and other provider organizations.
Ars Technica is a little more cautious about what is being offered here --- which is an alpha release for the desktop only.
I am a little wary myself when someone promises "no fees, no limits" on services which tend to get expensive as you scale up. Opera bundles free, unlimited VPN client into its browser
OUYA and GameStick consoles run Android/Linux, and Steam Machine runs a customized Debian GNU/Linux.
Does anyone, anywhere, have good numbers for Steam Machine sales? Because I can't find anything that suggests any movement there. Sales through Amazon.com are at rock bottom. Alienware ASM 100 Desktop Console
On 9 October 1912 White Star withdrew Olympic from service and returned her to her builders at Belfast to be refitted to incorporate lessons learned from the Titanic disaster 6 months prior, and improve safety. The number of lifeboats carried by Olympic was increased from twenty to sixty four and extra davits were installed along the boat deck to accommodate them. Also, an inner watertight skin was constructed in the boiler and engine rooms, to create a double hull. Five of the watertight bulkheads were extended up to B-Deck, extending to the entire height of the hull. This corrected a flaw in the original design, in which the bulkheads only rose up as far as E or D-Deck, a short distance above the waterline. This flaw had been exposed during Titanic's sinking, where water spilled over the top of the bulkheads as the ship sank and flooded subsequent compartments. In addition, an extra bulkhead was added to subdivide the electrical dynamo room, bringing the total number of watertight compartments to seventeen. Improvements were also made to the ship's pumping apparatus. These modifications meant that Olympic could survive a collision similar to that of Titanic, in that her first six compartments could be breached and the ship could remain afloat.
At the same time, Olympic's B-Deck underwent a refit, which included extra cabins (the parlour suites which proved popular on the Titanic were added to the Olympic), more cabins were fitted with private bathing facilities, and a Cafe Parisian (another addition that had proved popular on the Titanic) was added, offering another dining option to first class passengers. With these changes, Olympic's gross tonnage rose to 46,359 tons, 31 tons more than Titanic's.
RMS Olympic
Problems with radio communication --- obsolete technologies, monopoly power, the need for regulation --- all became clear after the loss of Titanic. Ir is a fascinating story and one the geek should know better.
Radio and the Titanic
I think they are deluding themselves. What I read is that their VPN region block has been utterly ineffective, except for a small and inconsequential group of people who don't know how to get around their VPN blockade.
That inconsequential group of people numbers somewhere around 46 million.
The VPN is a geek thing --- an added layer of complexity and expense which may or may not work around the block. Simplicity is what sells streaming media, instant access to a broad range of programming, though not necessarily access to every title in the 800 page catalog of Moves Unlimited.
Disney ran out of other people's intellectual property to rip off, so now they're ripping off their own? This movie will run into all the same traps that all movies which anthropmorphicize wild animals run into.
That trap would be the $1 Billon gross in first-run theatrical release for Zootopia? The 98% Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes?
IBM - Watson, a computer that can win at Jeopardy
Google - AlphaGo, a computer that wins at Go
Microsoft - Tay, a racist chatbot
Jeopardy is a trivia game.
Key words and phrases to which you respond with a factoid. To be fun and playable for the audience the boundaries of this "universe" have to be quite small.
Go is a game which is played with perfect information and clearly defined rules. It is a fascinating problem in its own right but it is not the same problem as recognizing a face or an object in a purely arbitrary setting.
What is needed, however, is the implementation of the Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies, or ET3.
. The main obstacle is the littleness of the current political and technical leadership, which is stuck firmly in the past centuries.
The first pneumatic tube delivery systems went into service in the 1860s --- but parcel delivery is essentially a "last mile" problem and that is where things start to get expensive. ET3 is irrelevant in this context.
Microsoft's AI keeps embarrassing them. It's like they thought their corporate image problem from being a ham-handed OS monopoly wasn't big enough: they needed to automate gaffes.
It is trivially easy to get a instant mod-up on Slashdot by pointing to the Microsoft's AI's occasional mistakes and not its successes. But most of the time Microsoft's AI seems to be getting it right. If you have something better, put it up where we can see it.
They always seem to test these things in desert-dry, pool-table flat environments, where automated delivery seems least urgent or necessary. The bike and pedestrian paths are there, after all, to see that students get a little exercise on campus.
Sounds like this was just a PR stunt to remind people that movie theaters still exist. I think.
Book the right movies and you can fill a lot of seats.
Currently Zootopia is the highest grossing film of 2016. Just with the six [animated] films released since the beginning of the 2010s, Disney has gained $3,855,100,000; this is more than the total gross of Disney's Renaissance Era.
'Zootopia': The Highest Grossing Film of 2016!
''When this court tries to make sense of what Mr. Keys did for a limited period of time, it was out of pique, it was out of anger at his former employer,'' US District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said at the conclusion of the hours-long hearing.
''He arrogated to himself the decision to affect the content of a journalistic publication. In practical effect, at least with respect to the Los Angeles Times webpage, the effect was relatively modest and did not do much to actually damage the reputation of that publication. But the intent was to wreak further damage which could have had further consequences.''
As Ars reported earlier, Keys was accused of handing over a username and password for former employer KTXL Fox 40's content management system (CMS) to members of Anonymous and instructing people there to ''fuck some shit up.''
[The prosecutor] in his final statement to the judge, lambasted Keys, pointing directly at him several times.
''This is a person, for whom his own aggrandizement, is willing to attack any institution that threatens him: the press, broadcast media, print media, law enforcement, the jury system,'' he said. ''This wasn't mischief, this was a rage driven by profound narcissism.''
Journalist sentenced to 24 months in prison after hacking-related conviction
It is laudable, but only if the money is yours --- such as in this case, for example. The government does not have "its own" money --- it confiscates it from captive taxpayers. Funds thus obtained should not be spent on simple charity
The taxpayer is captive only in the sense that he is expected to financially support a government and a society which now and again will make decisions with which he disagrees, among them charitable support for the elderly, the poor and disabled.
Until you or someone in your family has tried to obtain disability benefits through SSA/SSI you can have no idea what an ordeal it can be --- or the restrictions that come with it. Consider yourself fortunate if you do not have to go to Legal Aid for help for an appeal before an administrative law judge.
You can live modestly on an SSI budget, but those student loans will never be repaid, and it is fantasy to pretend otherwise.
That way everyone can enjoy it and no one can steal it.
It is enormously difficult to capture a sense of depth and texture in a scan. It is no coincidence that Jackson Pollack began as a muralist. The 23" 16:9 screen doesn't do him justice.