It's just hard to argue that to people whose most pressing problem isn't curing cancer but finding a place to park the car they live in
You're mixing two things that shouldn't be mixed. People working on transformative technologies versus arguing politics should follow Schmidt's advice.
And yes, there is also a social problem with a segment of the population who can't or won't work to support themselves.
Different problems for different people to solve, neither should be ignored.
It stands to reason that these devices will develop some kind of consciousness
No, it doesn't.
Now step away from the science fiction books. Computers do what we program them to do, and if the program doesn't do what we intended, we shut it down.
After the steel mills closed down they reinvented the city around banking, healthcare, and high tech. They pulled it off too, it's a nice city with a strong economy now.
And how is it supposed to work when you listen to music and play a game?
The receiver can filter to that specific frequency, same as a ship can use sonar while the engine is running and the propeller is turning.
As far as irritating people, dogs, and cats - just keep the music turned up for a while; high frequencies are the first to go in the subsequent hearing loss and tinnitus.
From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research must be freely available. It also must be able to optimally reuse research data. To achieve that, the data must be made accessible, unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so, for example intellectual property rights or security or privacy issues.
Read the fine print that the politicians wrote. As I read that, they're saying it's freely available unless the researcher decides otherwise.
Agreed. But if publishers go along with the idea of reselling e-books they will increase the price to make up for what they assume will be the lost sales.
It would be the same as buying something that comes with a lifetime "free replacement" guarantee. It isn't really free, you paid for it the same as if you bought replacement insurance.
Has anyone checked to see who is behind the editorial direction of Gawker? Most media outlets are nothing more than the mouthpiece for someone with money and an agenda.
My daughter found a very dusty 8 inch floppy that must've been at least twelve years old. It had a game on it that I'd bought as shareware in the early days of the Internet. She found an old floppy drive in my spare parts bucket and hooked it up - the game actually worked and was a pretty good RPG for it's day (it was called Lumpies of Lotus), so she wrote a review of the game in an online forum and received an nice "Thank You" from the author.
So there's a chance that the guys watching over the US nuclear arsenal are sitting there playing Lumpies while they wait for the pre-emptive strike.
I would be wanting to develop a medical-grade version anyway
I doubt you would want to do that. It's very, very, very expensive and has a tiny market. Fitbit is a hobby device; it was intended to give a rough estimate of your activity as a motivational tool. It is not a medical device and never will be.
So many companies go through the same sequence of events:
1) Build a successful business selling hardware
2) Customers ask for help with infrastructure and applications
3) Build a successful consulting business supporting hardware sales
4) Brilliant MBA notices consulting has a much higher profit margin than hardware
5) Company outsources hardware business and focuses on consulting
6) Pipeline of customers needing consulting dries up because they no longer buy hardware from company
7) CEO panics, has massive layoffs
8) New CEO looks around and sees that company no longer has a product to sell
Slashdot Mirror
All that's happened is that some of the political parties have agreed to discuss a plan banning new sales as early as 2025.
Somehow that translated to "Norway will ban new sales of fuel cars in 2025"
You don't indent your code blocks? I pity the fool who has to maintain it.
People living in their cars don't effect that problem.
It's just hard to argue that to people whose most pressing problem isn't curing cancer but finding a place to park the car they live in
You're mixing two things that shouldn't be mixed. People working on transformative technologies versus arguing politics should follow Schmidt's advice.
And yes, there is also a social problem with a segment of the population who can't or won't work to support themselves.
Different problems for different people to solve, neither should be ignored.
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"We visually organize your email and cloud-based content for ultra fast access. It's visual storytelling with any type of content."
Why not just call it what it is? Thumbnails.
It stands to reason that these devices will develop some kind of consciousness
No, it doesn't.
Now step away from the science fiction books. Computers do what we program them to do, and if the program doesn't do what we intended, we shut it down.
"the internet formerly known as the Internet"
Holder isn't part of any administration.
It's pretty obvious that slashdot is getting more political. The new owner is pushing his left coast agenda with nonsense stories like this.
After the steel mills closed down they reinvented the city around banking, healthcare, and high tech. They pulled it off too, it's a nice city with a strong economy now.
If your employees are threatened like that they won't be your employees for long.
Facebook shows you what it thinks you'll be interested in.
As opposed to Huff Post which shows you what it wants you to think, same as all the other media outlets like NYT, Fox, USA Today, Vox, etc.
if you walk past a tray of prepared food at the grocery store and it has a sign saying please take one, is it theft if you take one?
Of course not. But if you walk past someone's car and see a set of hubcaps you like, it is theft to pry them off and take them?
And how is it supposed to work when you listen to music and play a game?
The receiver can filter to that specific frequency, same as a ship can use sonar while the engine is running and the propeller is turning.
As far as irritating people, dogs, and cats - just keep the music turned up for a while; high frequencies are the first to go in the subsequent hearing loss and tinnitus.
Probably 426 Million of the hacked passwords are "123456".
I take that to mean accessible as in electronic format. As opposed to, say, printing it out on 55,000 sheets of paper.
From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research must be freely available. It also must be able to optimally reuse research data. To achieve that, the data must be made accessible, unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so, for example intellectual property rights or security or privacy issues.
Read the fine print that the politicians wrote. As I read that, they're saying it's freely available unless the researcher decides otherwise.
More likely the bacteria was passed from humans to pigs.
Agreed. But if publishers go along with the idea of reselling e-books they will increase the price to make up for what they assume will be the lost sales.
It would be the same as buying something that comes with a lifetime "free replacement" guarantee. It isn't really free, you paid for it the same as if you bought replacement insurance.
Not really. The owner has to pay taxes, some of which fund the prison system.
Nah. It was a Basic program running on DOS
Has anyone checked to see who is behind the editorial direction of Gawker? Most media outlets are nothing more than the mouthpiece for someone with money and an agenda.
My daughter found a very dusty 8 inch floppy that must've been at least twelve years old. It had a game on it that I'd bought as shareware in the early days of the Internet. She found an old floppy drive in my spare parts bucket and hooked it up - the game actually worked and was a pretty good RPG for it's day (it was called Lumpies of Lotus), so she wrote a review of the game in an online forum and received an nice "Thank You" from the author.
So there's a chance that the guys watching over the US nuclear arsenal are sitting there playing Lumpies while they wait for the pre-emptive strike.
I would be wanting to develop a medical-grade version anyway
I doubt you would want to do that. It's very, very, very expensive and has a tiny market. Fitbit is a hobby device; it was intended to give a rough estimate of your activity as a motivational tool. It is not a medical device and never will be.
So many companies go through the same sequence of events:
1) Build a successful business selling hardware
2) Customers ask for help with infrastructure and applications
3) Build a successful consulting business supporting hardware sales
4) Brilliant MBA notices consulting has a much higher profit margin than hardware
5) Company outsources hardware business and focuses on consulting
6) Pipeline of customers needing consulting dries up because they no longer buy hardware from company
7) CEO panics, has massive layoffs
8) New CEO looks around and sees that company no longer has a product to sell