Indeed. There are multiple levels of failure here. Obviously they failed to properly test the update on all their models. But they also failed to have a simple and easy "roll-back" to the previous version. There is no excuse for leaving their customers with no working TV for a week. For $1 they can include an extra 5GB of flash, so there is no reason to delete the old version until the new version is installed and working for a while.
Everything, because people are using JavaScript in place of Rust and C++. When my wife writes an app, she does 1% in C, just enough to pop up a WebView, and then does the other 99% in embedded JavaScript. This makes it 10 times slower, and 100 times harder to debug. Now she wants me to switch the backend to Node.js. She has even started teaching our kids to write non-web code in JavaScript, since "That is what Khan Academy uses!" (which is true).
The only good thing about the JavaScript takeover is that we no longer have to worry about Judgement Day. If the T-1000 is running JavaScript it will be too slow and buggy to harm anyone.
Can we please have some labelling laws so this thing can't be legally called "meat"?
Why? In what way is it "not meat"? Anyway, you can avoid buying it by looking at... the price tag. This stuff is going to sell for at least twice the price of dead-animal-meat.
My daughter is a vegan, and she said there is no way she will eat this stuff. According to her, it is still meat.
I was wondering this myself. Do that many people really use these things?
I use mine dozens of times per day. It is in the kitchen. When I am fixing my morning tea, Alexa updates me on my schedule for the day, and then gives me a five minute news brief. The light switch is across the room from the stove and sink, so it is nice to be able to switch it on and off with my voice. It is great for things like setting timers when my hands are wet. If I notice the milk jug in the refrigerator is getting low, I can just say "Alexa, add milk to the shopping list". Then when I get to the grocery store, I can pop up the Alexa app on my cell, and see the list. If I am washing the dishes, and remember something I need to do, I can tell Alexa to add it to my To-Do list without taking my hands out of the suds.
Could I live with out it? Sure. But for $149, it is definitely worth it.
Btw, this is the number of times I have used it to order something from Amazon: 0.
I suspect Echo's sucess over Google and Apple's voice assistant offerings has to do with Amazon's great developer support
I think the real reason is Google and Apple both offer products at a higher price and with no additional useful features. Choosing either over an Amazon Echo doesn't make much sense.
That seems weird because other countries put traitors in front of a firing squad. Has America gone soft on crime?
Firing squads are still used in Utah, although only if the condemned prisoner requests it. Otherwise the default is lethal injection. Utah may switch to firing squads as the default method if lethal drugs continue to be unavailable. The last execution by firing squad in Utah was in 2010.
If I was to be executed in Utah, I would definitely go with the firing squad. Lethal injections are for sissies.
If it was actually listening/recording then there would need to be way, way more wifi traffic than there actually is. There is a short burst only when you say the keyword.
If you are concerned about spying, then you should worry about something more plausible, like your cellphone.
I once made a comment to a co-worker about Trump's latest idiotic outburst, just assuming she was already aware of it. She had no idea what I was referring to. Then she explained to me that she didn't read any news, and had stopped paying attention to current events decades ago. She said that the result was less stress, and more time to spend on the important things in her life. As far as she could tell there were no negative consequences, since nothing in the news had anything to do with her life.
Is demand for my product expanding at the same time as the amount of product I can supply?
Historically, that hasn't mattered, becaus productivity improvements happened broadly across the economy. So even if demand for some particular product is fixed, there will be many more that see increased demand as production costs fall, and there will also be new products introduced based on the new technology.
Increased demand for labor in the face of rising productivity is not some ivory tower theory. It is based on historical reality.
When demand for labor goes down it actually _increases_ its value. I know, crazy, right?
Nobody believes that. You are being obtuse. What economists believe (with plenty of evidence) is that rising productivity does NOT reduce demand for labor, it increases it. This is known as Jevon's Paradox, but it really isn't a paradox at all. If you are a factory owner, and you are installing machinery that can double the production of each worker, and double your profits from each worker, would you fire half of them, or hire more?
Many warehouses don't have ACs now. As they switch from fluorescent to LED, they often use motion sensors, so the lights are only on if someone is in the aisle. One solution for SDFLs is put the lights on the FL.
I care. I am going to sign up as a writer, whip up a Selenium script to "clap" my articles, and then write myself a minivan. If that doesn't work, I will hire clappers on Mechanical Turk.
A good conspiracy theorist would not squander his credibilty by getting basic facts wrong, like saying a collision occurred in the "Pacific southeast" when it actually occurred north of the equator in the Western Pacific. The Southeastern Pacific is off the coast of Chile, about 16,000 km away, or roughly halfway around the world.
I don't think so. You might get permission to build a tool shed or garage, but not a residential or commercial building, especially if multi-story. In SF, 95% of all building permits are rejected, so they are looking for any reason to deny, deny, deny. Other Bay Area cities aren't much better.
If not, there must be a lot of blind building inspectors around.
Can you cite any building in the Bay Area built using CMUs in the last 25 years?
Some local govt's require the requester to pay for the cost of searching.
This is why government records should be public by default, and available on-line. Then private citizens can do their own searches. Government records should only be withheld from the public if there is a court order requiring them to be sealed, and even then only till a specific date.
Listen, they're not going to show you proof that the moon landings were "staged."
Private investigators have already found proof. The evidence, including film reels of deleted scenes and "extra takes", and affidavits from "astronauts" (really actors), was held in a storage room on the 57th floor of the World Trade Center. This is why GWB had the towers destroyed, using his ties to the Bin Laden family.
Also, if you look at the film of the landing, you can clearly see the flag flutter and cast a shadow. That is where they screwed up, because as any idiot can tell you, shadows don't form in a vacuum.
NASA, like many federal agencies, is in violation of the law,
That means nothing if there are no penalties for violation. There are some sanctions for violating FOIA, but I am unaware of them every being applied, and I don't think any bureaucrat has ever been fired for denying or ignoring a FOIA request. So why should they care?
Contracts should never be allowed to waive legal rights.
That sounds great in theory, but if companies face more lawsuits the costs will be passed on as higher prices.
When I write a contract, I always insert an arbitration clause. If I sign an important contract for work or IP licensing and it doesn't have an arbitration clause, I will ask to have one inserted. Going to arbitration is almost always better than going to court.
Even if class action lawsuits fail to compensate consumers, they still act as a deterrent against bad corporate behavior. You are not rewarded, but the company is still punished.
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They simply fucked up the software.
Indeed. There are multiple levels of failure here. Obviously they failed to properly test the update on all their models. But they also failed to have a simple and easy "roll-back" to the previous version. There is no excuse for leaving their customers with no working TV for a week. For $1 they can include an extra 5GB of flash, so there is no reason to delete the old version until the new version is installed and working for a while.
Trump has nothing to do with her life?
Correct. Trump has actually done very little, and none of it makes a practical difference in the the lives of most citizens.
Democracy only works properly if you have an engaged, informed electorate.
Can you cite any evidence to support this? Is higher voter turnout really associated with "better outcomes" is some objective way? I doubt it.
you end up with 1930s Germany.
Voter turnout in the 1933 German election was 96%.
WTF does Rust have to do with Javascript?
Everything, because people are using JavaScript in place of Rust and C++. When my wife writes an app, she does 1% in C, just enough to pop up a WebView, and then does the other 99% in embedded JavaScript. This makes it 10 times slower, and 100 times harder to debug. Now she wants me to switch the backend to Node.js. She has even started teaching our kids to write non-web code in JavaScript, since "That is what Khan Academy uses!" (which is true).
The only good thing about the JavaScript takeover is that we no longer have to worry about Judgement Day. If the T-1000 is running JavaScript it will be too slow and buggy to harm anyone.
We should start the engineering at the animal level
We have been doing that for 10,000 years. Look at a Holstein. Then look at a Auroch. Do you notice any difference?
There is no evidence it will clean up the environment until we see what the energy balance, carbon foot print, and waste products are.
At the very least, it won't belch methane.
Can we please have some labelling laws so this thing can't be legally called "meat"?
Why? In what way is it "not meat"? Anyway, you can avoid buying it by looking at ... the price tag. This stuff is going to sell for at least twice the price of dead-animal-meat.
My daughter is a vegan, and she said there is no way she will eat this stuff. According to her, it is still meat.
I was wondering this myself. Do that many people really use these things?
I use mine dozens of times per day. It is in the kitchen. When I am fixing my morning tea, Alexa updates me on my schedule for the day, and then gives me a five minute news brief. The light switch is across the room from the stove and sink, so it is nice to be able to switch it on and off with my voice. It is great for things like setting timers when my hands are wet. If I notice the milk jug in the refrigerator is getting low, I can just say "Alexa, add milk to the shopping list". Then when I get to the grocery store, I can pop up the Alexa app on my cell, and see the list. If I am washing the dishes, and remember something I need to do, I can tell Alexa to add it to my To-Do list without taking my hands out of the suds.
Could I live with out it? Sure. But for $149, it is definitely worth it.
Btw, this is the number of times I have used it to order something from Amazon: 0.
I suspect Echo's sucess over Google and Apple's voice assistant offerings has to do with Amazon's great developer support
I think the real reason is Google and Apple both offer products at a higher price and with no additional useful features. Choosing either over an Amazon Echo doesn't make much sense.
That seems weird because other countries put traitors in front of a firing squad. Has America gone soft on crime?
Firing squads are still used in Utah, although only if the condemned prisoner requests it. Otherwise the default is lethal injection. Utah may switch to firing squads as the default method if lethal drugs continue to be unavailable. The last execution by firing squad in Utah was in 2010.
If I was to be executed in Utah, I would definitely go with the firing squad. Lethal injections are for sissies.
If it was actually listening/recording then there would need to be way, way more wifi traffic than there actually is. There is a short burst only when you say the keyword.
If you are concerned about spying, then you should worry about something more plausible, like your cellphone.
I once made a comment to a co-worker about Trump's latest idiotic outburst, just assuming she was already aware of it. She had no idea what I was referring to. Then she explained to me that she didn't read any news, and had stopped paying attention to current events decades ago. She said that the result was less stress, and more time to spend on the important things in her life. As far as she could tell there were no negative consequences, since nothing in the news had anything to do with her life.
Who is this "we".
People with friends. So most Slashdotters are not affected.
Is demand for my product expanding at the same time as the amount of product I can supply?
Historically, that hasn't mattered, becaus productivity improvements happened broadly across the economy. So even if demand for some particular product is fixed, there will be many more that see increased demand as production costs fall, and there will also be new products introduced based on the new technology.
Increased demand for labor in the face of rising productivity is not some ivory tower theory. It is based on historical reality.
skyrocketing productivity has had no negative impact on wages or employment.
Productivity is not "skyrocketing". It has stagnated.
When demand for labor goes down it actually _increases_ its value. I know, crazy, right?
Nobody believes that. You are being obtuse. What economists believe (with plenty of evidence) is that rising productivity does NOT reduce demand for labor, it increases it. This is known as Jevon's Paradox, but it really isn't a paradox at all. If you are a factory owner, and you are installing machinery that can double the production of each worker, and double your profits from each worker, would you fire half of them, or hire more?
Many warehouses don't have ACs now. As they switch from fluorescent to LED, they often use motion sensors, so the lights are only on if someone is in the aisle. One solution for SDFLs is put the lights on the FL.
isnt it easier to hire Chinese clappers
Many MT workers are from India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. All have lower median wages than China. China isn't so cheap anymore.
And of those, how many care?
I care. I am going to sign up as a writer, whip up a Selenium script to "clap" my articles, and then write myself a minivan. If that doesn't work, I will hire clappers on Mechanical Turk.
A good conspiracy theorist would not squander his credibilty by getting basic facts wrong, like saying a collision occurred in the "Pacific southeast" when it actually occurred north of the equator in the Western Pacific. The Southeastern Pacific is off the coast of Chile, about 16,000 km away, or roughly halfway around the world.
I'm pretty sure construction using CMU
I don't think so. You might get permission to build a tool shed or garage, but not a residential or commercial building, especially if multi-story. In SF, 95% of all building permits are rejected, so they are looking for any reason to deny, deny, deny. Other Bay Area cities aren't much better.
If not, there must be a lot of blind building inspectors around.
Can you cite any building in the Bay Area built using CMUs in the last 25 years?
There's another option... companies could follow the law... just sayin'...
Arbitration is rarely about violating the law. That is criminal law, not civil, and contracts do not protect anyone from illegal acts.
Some local govt's require the requester to pay for the cost of searching.
This is why government records should be public by default, and available on-line. Then private citizens can do their own searches. Government records should only be withheld from the public if there is a court order requiring them to be sealed, and even then only till a specific date.
Listen, they're not going to show you proof that the moon landings were "staged."
Private investigators have already found proof. The evidence, including film reels of deleted scenes and "extra takes", and affidavits from "astronauts" (really actors), was held in a storage room on the 57th floor of the World Trade Center. This is why GWB had the towers destroyed, using his ties to the Bin Laden family.
Also, if you look at the film of the landing, you can clearly see the flag flutter and cast a shadow. That is where they screwed up, because as any idiot can tell you, shadows don't form in a vacuum.
What other proof do you need?
NASA, like many federal agencies, is in violation of the law,
That means nothing if there are no penalties for violation. There are some sanctions for violating FOIA, but I am unaware of them every being applied, and I don't think any bureaucrat has ever been fired for denying or ignoring a FOIA request. So why should they care?
Contracts should never be allowed to waive legal rights.
That sounds great in theory, but if companies face more lawsuits the costs will be passed on as higher prices.
When I write a contract, I always insert an arbitration clause. If I sign an important contract for work or IP licensing and it doesn't have an arbitration clause, I will ask to have one inserted. Going to arbitration is almost always better than going to court.
Even if class action lawsuits fail to compensate consumers, they still act as a deterrent against bad corporate behavior. You are not rewarded, but the company is still punished.