Microsoft is writing software for the kind of people who'd type google into the google search bar to get to google.
No, Microsoft is writing software for an impressive "new features" list, so the management will buy the damn thing over and over again. Featuritis is the natural result of enough cycles of that.
For most people with a bit of cash the hassle factor of DRM is what keeps them on the straight and narrow, for the people without cash who cares, they probably would not have paid for it anyway.
The problem is, the Pirate Bay Edition typically has far less hassle than the official "disable CD burners and phone home" version. DRM creates a constant hassle, installing a no-DRM patch is a one time thing.
Unfortunately it could be hard to predict usage patterns to charge less often and to wait until batteries are low enough to need it, as while one's daily commute might be consistent most of the time, if an emergency or other need forces a change it would be terrible to be low on energy simply because the computer thought that you were only going to need a range of 30 miles that day.
Speaking of computers, can't you do what SSDs do: cycle which cells are used first? It's not like a computer-controlled battery needs to take a little from every one; you can drain one, then the next, then the next, and after they're loaded go for the fourth.
Alternatively, you can always use the same cell first; when battery performance becomes unacceptable, just replace the worn-out cells rather than the whole thing. In fact, you could even use different technologies for different cells, since they don't need to produce the exact same voltage in this scenario: focus on cycle count and/or cheap price on the first-used end, and charge density and -longevity on the last resort end.
It's nice that they last a long time as that makes them very useful for certain applications, but for EVs that's not the major issue preventing EVs from being more appealing. The major issue is energy density and cost.
Except if batteries last basically forever, having "swapping stations" where a robot replaces your car battery with a fully loaded one becomes a lot more feasible, since you no longer need to worry about the difference in condition between the old and new battery. That, in turn, makes energy density less relevant, which allows smaller batteries, which brings down the costs. And low cost upfront combined with lower costs of operation combined with basically no maintenance needed makes for a very appealing vehicle for lower-income demographics, especially when these cars start appearing for sale used.
At the minimum, that could be prosecuted as a felonious assault with intent to cause grievous bodily injury.
Was there intent to cause grievous bodily injury? The summary doesn't say.
A good prosecutor could stuff this little turd in a very dark cell for a couple of decades, and the world would be much better off as a result.
A good prosecutor isn't someone who gets as many and hard convictions as possible. A good prosecutor is someone who thinks carefully whether charges should be pressed at all, and if yes, what are appropriate - as opposed to "nastiest possible" - charges. It's precisely this idea that court is some kind of sports event where prosecution scores points by screwing as many people as possible as hard as possible that's perverted the American justice system to the point of total disrespectability.
It's also the same mindset the "little turd" had: law is a weapon to be used against other people for your profit or amusement.
How many times do you need to be caught red-handed before assuming you're at it again stops being a conspiracy theory and becomes just common sense? Well, in the US it takes a single serious offence to mark you a felon for life, never to be trusted again, so why not judge the country itself by the same standard?
but there are many highly sensitive areas on a US nuclear submarine that certain foreign powers would love to get pictures of for competitive intelligence purposes.
And the people who are trained to use those systems - which I presume anyone who has access to "highly sensitive areas" is - can't simply describe the controls and function from memory? Which is a lot more reliable than trying to reverse engineer anything from a bad photograph.
That's what they're worried about, not some coverup of the Navy heartlessly waterboarding harp seals or giving blue whales torpedo enemas.
Of course they are. And if that just happens to also cover an occasional kidnapping here, transfer of funds or weapons to politically convenient guerilla or dictator there, spying a little bit over there....
That's what all corporate taxes do. With no exceptions, making it awfully regressive for any customers of any corporation who are not wealthy. But taxing the faceless corps scores points with economically illiterate voters.
Corporations set prices at whatever level maximizes profits, in other words the equation profit = profit per unit * units sold = (price per unit - costs per unit) * units sold. Taxing the profit does not change the price level that achieves this. The same goes to all other costs that affect the company as a whole, such as fines.
And tell me this: why should the minority with functioning brain stems have to be dictated to by stupid people with stupid agendas?
I'm pretty sure that people without functioning brainstems are quite incapable of dictating anything to those who have them, except perhaps through mediums. If you are taking orders from the dead, and feel compelled to obey, perhaps you should seek psychological help and/or an exorcism?
Also, have enough integrity to not vote from now on.
Let's be honest here: the route the ship took has zero tactical value after the fact, unless they keep on taking the same routes (which would be beyond idiotic). This is about stopping another leak a la Snowden or Manning, which in turn means there's more dirty secrets where those came from. The only real question is: what unsavory activities are being covered up this time?
It would make more sense to clean up their act than live in a constant state of futile paranoia.
Not being able to play grey-to-grey optimization games is I guess a possible downside of adaptive vsync; but I suspect it's a pretty small downside. Aside from gamers who want to see "the next frame" with the smallest latency possible, I don't know that anyone is really going to care much about that potential downside.
Especially since it's actually an upside to most people: the gray-to-gray "optimization" introduces flicker, at least based on your description.
...are 1.5 times harder than topics that can be easily turned in to fun activities and games. Voila!
No topic requires lectures. Books and recordings take care of passively absorbed - or, as this study shows, wasted - infodumps just fine. Lectures are simply a leftover from the time they weren't available.
Sounds like "Atlas Shrugged." Why work when your efforts are stolen from you? Use their redistribution scheme against them.
The difference being that Japan actually needs people to work as nurses, in factories and in farms, and will collapse if the work remains undone. On the other hand, both Japan and the world would get along just fine without real estate bubbles, bribery - sorry, "campaign contributions" - of politicians and "creative" accounting.
Atlas Shrugged sells the fantasy that the rich carry the world, rather than being parasites supported by the people who actually produce goods and services. It lets them pretend they are the victims, rather than the robber barons they actually are. That level of self-deception is just plain pathetic.
Having said that, there are many methods of protecting your crops that do not involve complex pesticides and other "highly unfriendly to certain types of living organisms" products.
Given that we have lots of unused arable land and lots of unemployed people, is there really any reason to worry about this at all? Just ban pesticides, accept that half of your crops is going to be eaten by bugs and plant twice as much. It could even arrest the economic collapse resulting from said unemployment we're heading to.
Why are you waiting on me? Did you forget how to use a search engine?
It's not my job to search for evidence for your claims. Or, for that matter, make your claims for you.
Though I doubt you actually care. You religious folks are only interested in validating your beliefs.
Ah, religion, the institution where you make a claim and when asked for specifics and evidence tell your audience to go read a bunch of old books rather than providing any. Does that sound familiar?
Oh well, since it's obvious this is some kind of personal issue to you, I'm leaving you to it.
You know, I heard about an early draft of Star Wars, where Han Solo had a furry girlfriend who looked like a giant guinea pig, who then morphed into Chewbacca in the final version. Given this, and Luke/Leia incest that did make it trough, I'd say that the Jar Jar we got was perfectly fine compared to the Binks we might have gotten.
Well, don't keep us waiting: what specific capability are we talking about, what's the proof that human mind has it, and what's the proof that no mere Turing powerful system can ever have it?
I think you miss the fact that the Chinese Room argument is firmly rooted in a deep mathematical basis (Entscheidungsproblem)
No, it isn't. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Halting Problem. It has nothing to do with mathematics either. It's crude circular logic: "syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics" is both an axiom and the conclusion of Searle's argument.
You can disagree with how these guys came to their conclusion, but it's the exact same conclusion others, by different means, reached decades ago: computation is insufficient.
Computation is insufficient to solve all problems, yes. The questions are: is anything capable of solving all problems? That is, is there something beyond computation? And if there is, does human mind include it? And if it does, is it something essential or does it just give you an extra edge in some special situations?
That's right. We don't. Of course, we don't need to know how it works in order to identify what does not.
So far, no one has demonstrated any ability of human mind that couldn't be replicated through computation. That, of course, doesn't mean none exists. Knowing how mind works would would presumably allow us to enumerate over all its capabilities and settle the matter.
Stop living in a fantasy land and learn to embrace reality. It's much more interesting than Kurzweil's video-game afterlife and Spielberg's sex-bots.
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But it's not like floppy disks are much bigger.
No, Microsoft is writing software for an impressive "new features" list, so the management will buy the damn thing over and over again. Featuritis is the natural result of enough cycles of that.
The problem is, the Pirate Bay Edition typically has far less hassle than the official "disable CD burners and phone home" version. DRM creates a constant hassle, installing a no-DRM patch is a one time thing.
Speaking of computers, can't you do what SSDs do: cycle which cells are used first? It's not like a computer-controlled battery needs to take a little from every one; you can drain one, then the next, then the next, and after they're loaded go for the fourth.
Alternatively, you can always use the same cell first; when battery performance becomes unacceptable, just replace the worn-out cells rather than the whole thing. In fact, you could even use different technologies for different cells, since they don't need to produce the exact same voltage in this scenario: focus on cycle count and/or cheap price on the first-used end, and charge density and -longevity on the last resort end.
Except if batteries last basically forever, having "swapping stations" where a robot replaces your car battery with a fully loaded one becomes a lot more feasible, since you no longer need to worry about the difference in condition between the old and new battery. That, in turn, makes energy density less relevant, which allows smaller batteries, which brings down the costs. And low cost upfront combined with lower costs of operation combined with basically no maintenance needed makes for a very appealing vehicle for lower-income demographics, especially when these cars start appearing for sale used.
"Retailers in a lot of cases are installing the new POSs that read a tap from a credit card."
Granted, the "don't need to enter a PIN" might have referred to a phone instead.
Convenient for pickpockets, that is. How do you disable that "feature" on your card?
Was there intent to cause grievous bodily injury? The summary doesn't say.
A good prosecutor isn't someone who gets as many and hard convictions as possible. A good prosecutor is someone who thinks carefully whether charges should be pressed at all, and if yes, what are appropriate - as opposed to "nastiest possible" - charges. It's precisely this idea that court is some kind of sports event where prosecution scores points by screwing as many people as possible as hard as possible that's perverted the American justice system to the point of total disrespectability.
It's also the same mindset the "little turd" had: law is a weapon to be used against other people for your profit or amusement.
How many times do you need to be caught red-handed before assuming you're at it again stops being a conspiracy theory and becomes just common sense? Well, in the US it takes a single serious offence to mark you a felon for life, never to be trusted again, so why not judge the country itself by the same standard?
And the people who are trained to use those systems - which I presume anyone who has access to "highly sensitive areas" is - can't simply describe the controls and function from memory? Which is a lot more reliable than trying to reverse engineer anything from a bad photograph.
Of course they are. And if that just happens to also cover an occasional kidnapping here, transfer of funds or weapons to politically convenient guerilla or dictator there, spying a little bit over there....
Corporations set prices at whatever level maximizes profits, in other words the equation profit = profit per unit * units sold = (price per unit - costs per unit) * units sold. Taxing the profit does not change the price level that achieves this. The same goes to all other costs that affect the company as a whole, such as fines.
I'm pretty sure that people without functioning brainstems are quite incapable of dictating anything to those who have them, except perhaps through mediums. If you are taking orders from the dead, and feel compelled to obey, perhaps you should seek psychological help and/or an exorcism?
Also, have enough integrity to not vote from now on.
You mean photos of illicit activities.
Let's be honest here: the route the ship took has zero tactical value after the fact, unless they keep on taking the same routes (which would be beyond idiotic). This is about stopping another leak a la Snowden or Manning, which in turn means there's more dirty secrets where those came from. The only real question is: what unsavory activities are being covered up this time?
It would make more sense to clean up their act than live in a constant state of futile paranoia.
Especially since it's actually an upside to most people: the gray-to-gray "optimization" introduces flicker, at least based on your description.
So suck them out of the financial "industry" instead. Economy can make do without bubbles, recessions and general chaos.
So it's an accurate model of policy making, then? Campaign contributions make for wonderful scalpels.
No topic requires lectures. Books and recordings take care of passively absorbed - or, as this study shows, wasted - infodumps just fine. Lectures are simply a leftover from the time they weren't available.
The cocaine poweder wouldn't stay on the boobs - or any other surface - in zero gravity. You'd need some kind of special inhalation device.
The difference being that Japan actually needs people to work as nurses, in factories and in farms, and will collapse if the work remains undone. On the other hand, both Japan and the world would get along just fine without real estate bubbles, bribery - sorry, "campaign contributions" - of politicians and "creative" accounting.
Atlas Shrugged sells the fantasy that the rich carry the world, rather than being parasites supported by the people who actually produce goods and services. It lets them pretend they are the victims, rather than the robber barons they actually are. That level of self-deception is just plain pathetic.
Given that we have lots of unused arable land and lots of unemployed people, is there really any reason to worry about this at all? Just ban pesticides, accept that half of your crops is going to be eaten by bugs and plant twice as much. It could even arrest the economic collapse resulting from said unemployment we're heading to.
That comes dangerously close to suggesting some kind of revolution of the proletariat, comrade.
It's not my job to search for evidence for your claims. Or, for that matter, make your claims for you.
Ah, religion, the institution where you make a claim and when asked for specifics and evidence tell your audience to go read a bunch of old books rather than providing any. Does that sound familiar?
Oh well, since it's obvious this is some kind of personal issue to you, I'm leaving you to it.
You know, I heard about an early draft of Star Wars, where Han Solo had a furry girlfriend who looked like a giant guinea pig, who then morphed into Chewbacca in the final version. Given this, and Luke/Leia incest that did make it trough, I'd say that the Jar Jar we got was perfectly fine compared to the Binks we might have gotten.
Well, don't keep us waiting: what specific capability are we talking about, what's the proof that human mind has it, and what's the proof that no mere Turing powerful system can ever have it?
No, it isn't. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Halting Problem. It has nothing to do with mathematics either. It's crude circular logic: "syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics" is both an axiom and the conclusion of Searle's argument.
Classic bullshit, in other words.
Computation is insufficient to solve all problems, yes. The questions are: is anything capable of solving all problems? That is, is there something beyond computation? And if there is, does human mind include it? And if it does, is it something essential or does it just give you an extra edge in some special situations?
So far, no one has demonstrated any ability of human mind that couldn't be replicated through computation. That, of course, doesn't mean none exists. Knowing how mind works would would presumably allow us to enumerate over all its capabilities and settle the matter.
And now we're back to meaningless rhetoric.