The B&M know this, and like it. Best Buy would be out of business next week if Amazon closed. Amazon is free advertisement for Best Buy. Get someone interested in an item. They'll look at it online. They'll get excited. They'll go to a local store. And then, they can buy it there (price matched, or just a little more than Amazon), and have it Right Now, or they can go home. Order it, and wait. Best Buy survives on the goods checkers who just walk out with the item. You may not do it, but millions do.
Nope. Most of the brick and mortar deaths are from Wal-Mart, not the Internet. Nothing killed a small town economy like a Wal-Mart moving in. I've seen a down with a Main street that had 30,000 or so people. Wal-Mart moved in on the edge of town, and Main Street is dead. The Internet is blamed for so many things it didn't do.
Before you say "well there are stores that didn't",
Do you know any stores that did? Borders, Barnes and Noble are the only ones I've seen that seem to have a consensus that the Internet (specifically Amazon) took them down. Funny, when they started, they were blamed with taking out the indie bookstores, which have come back after the Internet took down them. Looks like the Internet did more for the local brick and mortar stores than it did to harm them.
When click and collect/delivery eliminates 90% of grocery stores in cities, then I'll belive your silly claims. But for now, it's still all FUD, no truth.
The AMA is actively working to reduce the numbers of doctors. They think there's enough. Thousands of "qualified" people are rejected from medical school every year.
That statement has a chance of being true only if the poster has done it. When the corporate overlords are acting evilly, why is a character flaw to act similarly in response?
And the PS3 was first to 3D (one of the few non-3D Blu-Ray that was upgraded to play 3D once the standard was done). And always plays the newest disks without error, something most others don't do. And, it's faster to boot and start playing than many players of a similar price. Though the price of players has dropped greatly since introduction, but for a long while the best blu-ray player was the PS3. That's my PS3's main use in our house.
Most of the "illegal immigrants" aren't from Mexico and didn't cross from Mexico. So exclusive focus on Mexico seems to be racism. Yes, I know they are a large portion, but they are not the "sole" issue, and focusing on them, rather than all the issues to identify the best target areas, is illogical.
"Hate the foreigners, they are the source of your problems" is a large first step to fascism
You must be new here. Read the last 1000 uses of SJW, and substitute "someone I don't like" for SJW and see if it changes the meaning at all. It won't. Rarely (if ever) is SJW used as you indicate.
The kids read much more than "average" (and average is quite poor). And play outside much more than average as well. All your assumptions are wrong, but we all appreciate you judging anyone that doesn't live exactly the way you think we should.
This is a Tech site. I imagine more are like me than the average. I don't use a tuner or sound in my TV. The tuner is a separate box, and the sound is from a "real" system. So getting a 50% discount on a TV because it comes with a single HDMI, no tuner, no sound, and no remote (or ability to use one) would be fine with lots of geeks, but the companies see people like me as the high value customers, so make it hard (to impossible) to get the high-end displays in a non-TV configuration. In practice, it's more expensive for me to buy the displays than a TV.
Yes, but the initial patents on the first Ford have long since expired. Copyright never expires. You can't apply patent concepts to copyright. Mickey broke copyright.
Caching is not an "intentional" "user" event. It is an automated system or program event. You didn't read his words carefully, he obviously considered caching.
By that logic, Supermarkets are full of "ads" because they display products in a visible manner. Paid placement of product in a marketplace isn't considered an "ad" in meatspace, why would it be considered an ad online
The problem is that today, people have 5-10 devices attached to their TV. in the '70s, you had maybe one VCR. In the '80s, you had a VCR and a game-console (often such that they both ran on channel 3, and you could only have one on at a time). Now, you have 2-3 consoles, a DVD player you don't use (because all the game consoles play DVDs and 2/3 of the big-3 play Blu-Ray), plus one or more media players (some prefer the HD-based off-line players with piles of ripped DVDs on them, others prefer the online Roku/Chromecast/AppleTV based online content streamers).
So obviously, the TV makers tried to make our lives easier by including as much as possible. Playing disks is hard, and takes additional hardware. Including storage takes hardware. So the easy target is to have some manner of media-streamer. And that requires being connected. So, if you have to be connected, what else can they do? Ads? Great, lets serve ads. Now the bonus feature is a liability. A Smart TV is an annoyance, not a desireable thing.
Can you give examples? The only examples I found were large-format displays that were incredibly low resolution. Like a 1/10th scale jumbotron (which you can already see the individual pixels on from 100m away), not a large TV. They are usually focused on being too bright, so you can have them in a store-front with sunlight on them, and still be usable. I like a TV in a cave, with good color rendering and crisp picture.
The fact is, SJW as you define it is unrelated to how others use it. That you may be the only person on the world to use it "correctly" doesn't mean that the general definition of it is useful in any way.
AI does fully understand that humans don't zipper. So long as the base parameters are set properly.
Humans have base parameters. Infants who have never seen or experienced a fall are still scared of heights. Some parameters are included at "birth", so humans building AI should include those as well.
Yes, the worst possible AI will be pretty bad at doing things. But the worst possible anything is pretty bad at doing things.
Likely, the AI would fire itself in 5 years. It'd take that long to get a good correlation on whether traffic patterns change based on patterns of the moon, or holidays, but once the long-term patterns are set, likely the algorithm for traffic could be set almost statically (changes as the population centers change in the metropolitan area). Sure, the algorithm would be complex, but there's no AI needed. The reason that we need AI now is that the humans working the traffic lights are too dumb. They are so busy reacting to traffic that they never stop to think about predicting traffic.
And that long list of things you don't like is near-exhaustive, so it comes back to the answer I gave: SWJ = someone I don't like (or someone who complains about something I don't care about).
Nope. The definition of AI has changed because AI researchers are incompetent. AI used to mean "strong AI", now AI means "something that someone could possibly confuse with impotently weak AI."
I want one AI per traffic signal. They should have cameras in all 4 directions, and measure the number of cars (and speeds and such) in each way, and use a weighting algorithm to minimize the "cost" of those trying to pass through the intersection. Link the AIs from all the intersections for predictive signaling, and visualize 100% of the traffic in real-time to minimize travel cost of the network. 10,000 AIs at each intersection linked to each other could be called a single AI. But a central AI that's the smartest program ever made by orders of magnitude, is still dumb if all it has as inputs is magnetic loops at the stop lines at intersections. You have to have predictive capabilities, and the current detection used is insufficient for any AI to be considered an AI. Because no matter how smart it is, the actions/results will always be dumb.
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
The traffic signals here are not controlled by an AI. And all the "AI" that is used to control traffic signals is such weak AI that it shouldn't count.
By your definition, AI would include a 1950 telephone. You put in a number, and if maps that to a destination, and notifies them you are trying to reach them, and if they accept, connects the call.
Stong AI has a simple test. Can it write an AI smarter than itself?
Voice recognition isn't AI. Or has "AI" come to mean all "weak AI", and "weak AI" is now defined as " anything a dumb human thinks is hard"?
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The B&M know this, and like it. Best Buy would be out of business next week if Amazon closed. Amazon is free advertisement for Best Buy. Get someone interested in an item. They'll look at it online. They'll get excited. They'll go to a local store. And then, they can buy it there (price matched, or just a little more than Amazon), and have it Right Now, or they can go home. Order it, and wait. Best Buy survives on the goods checkers who just walk out with the item. You may not do it, but millions do.
Before you say "well there are stores that didn't",
Do you know any stores that did? Borders, Barnes and Noble are the only ones I've seen that seem to have a consensus that the Internet (specifically Amazon) took them down. Funny, when they started, they were blamed with taking out the indie bookstores, which have come back after the Internet took down them. Looks like the Internet did more for the local brick and mortar stores than it did to harm them.
When click and collect/delivery eliminates 90% of grocery stores in cities, then I'll belive your silly claims. But for now, it's still all FUD, no truth.
The AMA is actively working to reduce the numbers of doctors. They think there's enough. Thousands of "qualified" people are rejected from medical school every year.
That statement has a chance of being true only if the poster has done it. When the corporate overlords are acting evilly, why is a character flaw to act similarly in response?
And we'd have made the Mexicans pay for it.
Home charging or battery swap charging stations. It's not hard.
And the PS3 was first to 3D (one of the few non-3D Blu-Ray that was upgraded to play 3D once the standard was done). And always plays the newest disks without error, something most others don't do. And, it's faster to boot and start playing than many players of a similar price. Though the price of players has dropped greatly since introduction, but for a long while the best blu-ray player was the PS3. That's my PS3's main use in our house.
You are seeming to confuse the issues of "letting in" for a visit and "letting in" to settle.
Most of the "illegal immigrants" aren't from Mexico and didn't cross from Mexico. So exclusive focus on Mexico seems to be racism. Yes, I know they are a large portion, but they are not the "sole" issue, and focusing on them, rather than all the issues to identify the best target areas, is illogical.
"Hate the foreigners, they are the source of your problems" is a large first step to fascism
You must be new here. Read the last 1000 uses of SJW, and substitute "someone I don't like" for SJW and see if it changes the meaning at all. It won't. Rarely (if ever) is SJW used as you indicate.
The kids read much more than "average" (and average is quite poor). And play outside much more than average as well. All your assumptions are wrong, but we all appreciate you judging anyone that doesn't live exactly the way you think we should.
This is a Tech site. I imagine more are like me than the average. I don't use a tuner or sound in my TV. The tuner is a separate box, and the sound is from a "real" system. So getting a 50% discount on a TV because it comes with a single HDMI, no tuner, no sound, and no remote (or ability to use one) would be fine with lots of geeks, but the companies see people like me as the high value customers, so make it hard (to impossible) to get the high-end displays in a non-TV configuration. In practice, it's more expensive for me to buy the displays than a TV.
Yes, but the initial patents on the first Ford have long since expired. Copyright never expires. You can't apply patent concepts to copyright. Mickey broke copyright.
Caching is not an "intentional" "user" event. It is an automated system or program event. You didn't read his words carefully, he obviously considered caching.
At worst, that becomes a contract violation, which is still not "illegal", but is a possible tort.
By that logic, Supermarkets are full of "ads" because they display products in a visible manner. Paid placement of product in a marketplace isn't considered an "ad" in meatspace, why would it be considered an ad online
The problem is that today, people have 5-10 devices attached to their TV. in the '70s, you had maybe one VCR. In the '80s, you had a VCR and a game-console (often such that they both ran on channel 3, and you could only have one on at a time). Now, you have 2-3 consoles, a DVD player you don't use (because all the game consoles play DVDs and 2/3 of the big-3 play Blu-Ray), plus one or more media players (some prefer the HD-based off-line players with piles of ripped DVDs on them, others prefer the online Roku/Chromecast/AppleTV based online content streamers).
So obviously, the TV makers tried to make our lives easier by including as much as possible. Playing disks is hard, and takes additional hardware. Including storage takes hardware. So the easy target is to have some manner of media-streamer. And that requires being connected. So, if you have to be connected, what else can they do? Ads? Great, lets serve ads. Now the bonus feature is a liability. A Smart TV is an annoyance, not a desireable thing.
Can you give examples? The only examples I found were large-format displays that were incredibly low resolution. Like a 1/10th scale jumbotron (which you can already see the individual pixels on from 100m away), not a large TV. They are usually focused on being too bright, so you can have them in a store-front with sunlight on them, and still be usable. I like a TV in a cave, with good color rendering and crisp picture.
The fact is, SJW as you define it is unrelated to how others use it. That you may be the only person on the world to use it "correctly" doesn't mean that the general definition of it is useful in any way.
AI does fully understand that humans don't zipper. So long as the base parameters are set properly.
Humans have base parameters. Infants who have never seen or experienced a fall are still scared of heights. Some parameters are included at "birth", so humans building AI should include those as well.
Yes, the worst possible AI will be pretty bad at doing things. But the worst possible anything is pretty bad at doing things.
Likely, the AI would fire itself in 5 years. It'd take that long to get a good correlation on whether traffic patterns change based on patterns of the moon, or holidays, but once the long-term patterns are set, likely the algorithm for traffic could be set almost statically (changes as the population centers change in the metropolitan area). Sure, the algorithm would be complex, but there's no AI needed. The reason that we need AI now is that the humans working the traffic lights are too dumb. They are so busy reacting to traffic that they never stop to think about predicting traffic.
And that long list of things you don't like is near-exhaustive, so it comes back to the answer I gave: SWJ = someone I don't like (or someone who complains about something I don't care about).
Nope. The definition of AI has changed because AI researchers are incompetent. AI used to mean "strong AI", now AI means "something that someone could possibly confuse with impotently weak AI."
I want one AI per traffic signal. They should have cameras in all 4 directions, and measure the number of cars (and speeds and such) in each way, and use a weighting algorithm to minimize the "cost" of those trying to pass through the intersection. Link the AIs from all the intersections for predictive signaling, and visualize 100% of the traffic in real-time to minimize travel cost of the network. 10,000 AIs at each intersection linked to each other could be called a single AI. But a central AI that's the smartest program ever made by orders of magnitude, is still dumb if all it has as inputs is magnetic loops at the stop lines at intersections. You have to have predictive capabilities, and the current detection used is insufficient for any AI to be considered an AI. Because no matter how smart it is, the actions/results will always be dumb.
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
The traffic signals here are not controlled by an AI. And all the "AI" that is used to control traffic signals is such weak AI that it shouldn't count.
By your definition, AI would include a 1950 telephone. You put in a number, and if maps that to a destination, and notifies them you are trying to reach them, and if they accept, connects the call.
Stong AI has a simple test. Can it write an AI smarter than itself?
Voice recognition isn't AI. Or has "AI" come to mean all "weak AI", and "weak AI" is now defined as " anything a dumb human thinks is hard"?