That anecdote lacks some power, because just about every other laptop manufacturer uses the 'logo upright when opened' orientation. It's not just an Apple thing, and it has really become an expected part of laptop design.
Huh, I just tested your theory. I just took a look at my Lenovo Thinkpad X220, a laptop I chose for functionality/reliability, not style. Logo upright for the user when closed. Went to check my wife's T410, same.
Although I use a Mac Pro (the last non-cylinder version, I like my multiple internal drive bays thank you very much), I only tried a Macbook once and I found it had quite a lot of shortcomings compared to something like a Thinkpad (the most serious problems where when using it with an external monitor, but it's a long story), so it's mostly Thinkpads since.
I had a Nokia N900, a great linux-based phone, especially if you were an advanced user. Then I sacrificed the qwerty keyboard that I liked on the N900 and got a Nokia N9. To this day, I maintain that it was by far the best mobile phone UI I have ever used. Best feature was probably the app switching, so quick and easy to go from one app and the other and at the same time deciding whether the app you are leaving keeps running in the background or terminates. And the hardware and design was great as well. When I first got it, my wife tried it out with its beautiful Super Amoled curved display and told me "hey, next to your iPhone (a brand new 4S if I recall) this one looks like it is from 2030!". In fact when I switched to a Samsung Galaxy S3 (due to some apps I needed and were not available for Maemo/Meego), it was the first time ever I thought my new phone was (much) worse than the previous one. Right now I have an iPhone 6 plus and a Xiaomi Mi4 and I still miss that N9! So, this was just a side note before saying thanks to the engineers who brought us what was the best mobile OS so far and it should have dominated the market, if only the marketing was as good as the actual product. When I first heard about Jolla I hoped I would be able to get another phone as good as the ol' N9 at some point, so I am sorry to hear about their struggles.
Isn't it kind of a strange metric? It measures people who don't really know the language but want to learn it. But did they learn it in the end? Did they end up using it? Was it actual programmers trying to get into a new language / refreshing one for a new project, or was it complete beginners who heard "python is cool" or something like that and search for a tutorial thinking they will be great programmers? And not all languages have an equal basis in this metric. For example who would search google for a perl tutorial? I mean it doesn't even support regex for christ sake! Also it is well known that Perl either comes as an Epiphany, or you are taught by Monks, you don't read a tutorial...
Ehh, sorry to break it to you, but not all Unix installations come with SGI's File System Navigator. So in those installations, your best bet would be to create a GUI interface using VB and track the IP.
This is NOT a proof of concept of stealth ransomware using some 0-day exploit etc. You have to actually download it, choose to run it, close the warning box that is popping up to warn you exactly of this sort of software. That's where I stopped reading, I mean, most competent programmers can write a program that ransom your documents in two days. Heck, I bet there are some who in two days of coding could even manage to bundle in a multi-level FPS game. The hard part is to get ransomware to run without the user explicitly installing it. Unless I am missing something, in which case you can enlighten me..
That means I can actually use some sort of extra data, let's call it "meta" data from now on, to manage my photos! Imagine if in the future they could store extensive details like even the temperature of the sensor! I know I am making things up now, but perhaps it would be convenient for example on some sort of futuristic long exposure technique where you would need dark calibration frames.
Can't wait for tomorrows news for nerds, where Mandy George-Shelley after twenty years takes another look at the mouse and discovers a second button which can do so many things, but can be a privacy concern if you right-click the wrong things...
I beg to differ. Usually a person "needing" something usually means that he/she has not something similar. A prolific reviewer who has several similar items is in a much much better position to review something by drawing from experience, whether they "need" it or not. I have read many useless reviews from people who are honest and everything, but don't realize something is not good just because it is their first of the kind.
1. Generally, I only put stock into the ones from verified purchasers - mainly because of all the people trying to game the reviews.
If you read about the case, Amazon did an investigation and they found that the sellers would send the "reviewers" an empty box so that the review would show up as a verified purchase. So they are trying to combat that.
2. There is a growing, serious problem with reviews submitted people who've been given a product discount and "asked" to write a review. Interestingly, they apparently are required to state that fact in the review itself, which makes it easier for me to flag all such reviews as "unhelpful".
3. Amazon has its own ludicrous program for sending free products to people expressly so they'll review the items ("Vine", I think). These are also well worthy of being flagged as unhelpful, which I try to do whenever I'm exposed to them. Come on, Amazon... I only want to hear the experiences of people who purchased the product because they needed / wanted it. I couldn't care less about the opinion of someone who received the product just because they're considered a good reviewer in general - what a dumb concept!
What is wrong with giving people who YOU and other Amazon customers have voted as writing "useful" reviews a product and ask them to review it fairly. As far as I know there are no strings attached, you don't get into the Vine program if you write "nice" reviews, you get into it if you write many reviews that people find helpful. Yes, I'd rather read the review of someone who did not think about buying the item themselves, but is a good reviewer in general.
Atlas Shrugged has one fourth the number of reviews, it got the 11% having just 5 critics like it. That's like a margin of error. Never mind the fact that they probably had less expectations than a big budget movie with acclaimed actors (but they did indeed rate it less than After Earth on average). And I did not like Ender's Game at all, but that is mostly because it missed all the important points of the book, I am sure the vast majority of the reviewers had never read the book and some might not even be able to tell Star Wars from Star Trek ("hey, they are space movies"). So you are nitpicking, and you still don't seem to get it when you are talking about "some kind of breakdown in their algorithm". Their algorithm is "positive reviews"/"total reviews". That's it. It does not break down, but it just shows whether there is a consensus AMONG CRITICS on whether they think a movie is good or bad. Nothing more, nothing less, it will not tell you if you will like the movie and it will certainly not agree with you.
You don't seem to understand how the tomatometer works. Instead of it being similar to a 1-10 or star rating that gives an average over review scores, it is simply what percentage of reviewers were positive instead of negative. I find it quite easy to believe that only 1 out of 10 professional critics found the movie good overall. Now, rottentomatoes also averages the score of the same reviewers and for After Earth it gets 3.8/10. I suspect when you were expecting better than 30%, you were thinking something like average score, i.e. the reviewers did not thing it was good, but did not punish it by giving it a 1 out of 10 score. And that is indeed the case, on average they gave it a 2/5 or 4/10. Although I don't blindly follow critics, I do look at rottentomatoes and it usually gives at least an indication of what to expect. Sometimes even reviewers themselves are polarized, but since you get review "blurbs" if you scroll down you quickly figure out if things that reviewers like/dislike are the things you like/dislike. IMDB is also a great score, since I more or less agree with it for quite a lot more movies than the ones I disagree with it, which is not something I can say about many other ratings. Also note that IMDB has a genre bias, so for example a comedy getting 6.5 might actually mean a decent comedy when a drama getting 6.5 is probably not good. But you learn to use it and it helps narrowing down what to watch next. It certainly does a helluva better job compared to the VHS covers which was all I had to go with back in the 80's at the movie rental store...
Haha funny guy, because photons have little or no mass. But they are probably using electrons, did you think about that? And electrons are much much much heavier than photons!
Well, no money works for most things in the ST universe since they are in abundance. You can create almost anything via the replicator (and presumably the energy required is practically free). So food, clothing etc is free. But there are still some things that are scarce, like animals (although at least one type of animal in ST has proven to be anything but scarce) or when dealing with other societies that only understand money (and ear rubbing). So while there are a couple of mentions of "federation credit" that are just sloppy writing, there are legitimate reasons there would be such a system for those edge cases.
in its test flight it had no crew (the Russians thought it was too dangerous!)
Well, they had copied the US designs, and I guess even with their improvements they still didn't quite trust it!;)
Question is, why didn't the USA develop the automated/remotely controlled capabilities that the Russians had??
The real question is why didn't NASA just buy it off for next to nothing after the fall of the Soviet Union. I mean they ended up relying on much older Soviet technology to get to the ISS, it would have been so much better to have salvaged that nice Buran project...
Do the right thing... for whom? Without a specifier it does not tell us anything. It is definitely not the same as "don't be evil", although we've figured out that Google has not followed that mantra for a while now (not at Apple levels yet!).
I'm in the same boat. For a while now, every update has made things worse for me, usually having to do with my multi-monitor desktop. If I remember correctly the most functional OS X for me was Snow Leopard, it sort of went downhill from there, but I had been forced to do an update every now and then because I had to use a current version of Xcode. Until Yosemite that is - it became so dysfunctional that I got a separate machine as an Xcode box to run Yosemite (and upgrade to El Capitan when Xcode makes me), and my main machine is staying on Mavericks. Similar, the iPad I actually use myself is still on iOS 7, while the iOS devices used for development are on iOS 9... With windows I have some (older) machines running happily on Windows XP and some newer ones on Windows 7. Sure MS gives us some really crappy OS updates from time to time, but they don't FORCE our hand. Windows XP is older than the first "Cheetah" version of OS X, yet it is actually useful for things and quite functional (if it wasn't for the discontinuation of support for it - MS supported it for many, many more years than Apple does - it would still be a good option for many).
While it's kinda impressive that AI can do that, it's also clear that we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human.
What makes you believe we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human?
It is just the first step of a two step process to protect the South Korean youth from one of the five most common causes of injury or death. The second step is to install gps devices on all electric fans. When the system shows a youth in the same location as a working fan for more than 30 minutes, the authorities will be alerted.
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That anecdote lacks some power, because just about every other laptop manufacturer uses the 'logo upright when opened' orientation. It's not just an Apple thing, and it has really become an expected part of laptop design.
Huh, I just tested your theory. I just took a look at my Lenovo Thinkpad X220, a laptop I chose for functionality/reliability, not style. Logo upright for the user when closed. Went to check my wife's T410, same.
Although I use a Mac Pro (the last non-cylinder version, I like my multiple internal drive bays thank you very much), I only tried a Macbook once and I found it had quite a lot of shortcomings compared to something like a Thinkpad (the most serious problems where when using it with an external monitor, but it's a long story), so it's mostly Thinkpads since.
I had a Nokia N900, a great linux-based phone, especially if you were an advanced user. Then I sacrificed the qwerty keyboard that I liked on the N900 and got a Nokia N9. To this day, I maintain that it was by far the best mobile phone UI I have ever used. Best feature was probably the app switching, so quick and easy to go from one app and the other and at the same time deciding whether the app you are leaving keeps running in the background or terminates. And the hardware and design was great as well. When I first got it, my wife tried it out with its beautiful Super Amoled curved display and told me "hey, next to your iPhone (a brand new 4S if I recall) this one looks like it is from 2030!". In fact when I switched to a Samsung Galaxy S3 (due to some apps I needed and were not available for Maemo/Meego), it was the first time ever I thought my new phone was (much) worse than the previous one. Right now I have an iPhone 6 plus and a Xiaomi Mi4 and I still miss that N9!
So, this was just a side note before saying thanks to the engineers who brought us what was the best mobile OS so far and it should have dominated the market, if only the marketing was as good as the actual product. When I first heard about Jolla I hoped I would be able to get another phone as good as the ol' N9 at some point, so I am sorry to hear about their struggles.
Isn't it kind of a strange metric? It measures people who don't really know the language but want to learn it. But did they learn it in the end? Did they end up using it? Was it actual programmers trying to get into a new language / refreshing one for a new project, or was it complete beginners who heard "python is cool" or something like that and search for a tutorial thinking they will be great programmers?
And not all languages have an equal basis in this metric. For example who would search google for a perl tutorial? I mean it doesn't even support regex for christ sake! Also it is well known that Perl either comes as an Epiphany, or you are taught by Monks, you don't read a tutorial...
One "chuckymonkey" twitter account added to the list. Welcome to the brave new world, terrorista!
Ehh, sorry to break it to you, but not all Unix installations come with SGI's File System Navigator. So in those installations, your best bet would be to create a GUI interface using VB and track the IP.
Pay you? How? My bitcoin wallet was in ~/Documents!!!
This is NOT a proof of concept of stealth ransomware using some 0-day exploit etc. You have to actually download it, choose to run it, close the warning box that is popping up to warn you exactly of this sort of software. That's where I stopped reading, I mean, most competent programmers can write a program that ransom your documents in two days. Heck, I bet there are some who in two days of coding could even manage to bundle in a multi-level FPS game. The hard part is to get ransomware to run without the user explicitly installing it.
Unless I am missing something, in which case you can enlighten me..
That means I can actually use some sort of extra data, let's call it "meta" data from now on, to manage my photos! Imagine if in the future they could store extensive details like even the temperature of the sensor! I know I am making things up now, but perhaps it would be convenient for example on some sort of futuristic long exposure technique where you would need dark calibration frames.
Can't wait for tomorrows news for nerds, where Mandy George-Shelley after twenty years takes another look at the mouse and discovers a second button which can do so many things, but can be a privacy concern if you right-click the wrong things...
Hey, I've been running it too and I just got a hit!
Oh wait...
Nevermind...
I bet Derek Zoolander will look great in this on the runway!
looks a bit like Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, towed in for repairs after a run-in with the Imperial fleet.
Sure, in the same way a croissant does.
Meaning, not at all.
OK, I'll give you that, it doesn't look like a croissant, but how about a cronut? Do you see it?
I beg to differ. Usually a person "needing" something usually means that he/she has not something similar. A prolific reviewer who has several similar items is in a much much better position to review something by drawing from experience, whether they "need" it or not. I have read many useless reviews from people who are honest and everything, but don't realize something is not good just because it is their first of the kind.
1. Generally, I only put stock into the ones from verified purchasers - mainly because of all the people trying to game the reviews.
If you read about the case, Amazon did an investigation and they found that the sellers would send the "reviewers" an empty box so that the review would show up as a verified purchase. So they are trying to combat that.
2. There is a growing, serious problem with reviews submitted people who've been given a product discount and "asked" to write a review. Interestingly, they apparently are required to state that fact in the review itself, which makes it easier for me to flag all such reviews as "unhelpful".
3. Amazon has its own ludicrous program for sending free products to people expressly so they'll review the items ("Vine", I think). These are also well worthy of being flagged as unhelpful, which I try to do whenever I'm exposed to them. Come on, Amazon... I only want to hear the experiences of people who purchased the product because they needed / wanted it. I couldn't care less about the opinion of someone who received the product just because they're considered a good reviewer in general - what a dumb concept!
What is wrong with giving people who YOU and other Amazon customers have voted as writing "useful" reviews a product and ask them to review it fairly. As far as I know there are no strings attached, you don't get into the Vine program if you write "nice" reviews, you get into it if you write many reviews that people find helpful. Yes, I'd rather read the review of someone who did not think about buying the item themselves, but is a good reviewer in general.
Huh, very rare to have someone from the Kennedy Space Center here. We usually get input from posters who "work" on KSP instead.
Atlas Shrugged has one fourth the number of reviews, it got the 11% having just 5 critics like it. That's like a margin of error. Never mind the fact that they probably had less expectations than a big budget movie with acclaimed actors (but they did indeed rate it less than After Earth on average). And I did not like Ender's Game at all, but that is mostly because it missed all the important points of the book, I am sure the vast majority of the reviewers had never read the book and some might not even be able to tell Star Wars from Star Trek ("hey, they are space movies"). So you are nitpicking, and you still don't seem to get it when you are talking about "some kind of breakdown in their algorithm". Their algorithm is "positive reviews"/"total reviews". That's it. It does not break down, but it just shows whether there is a consensus AMONG CRITICS on whether they think a movie is good or bad. Nothing more, nothing less, it will not tell you if you will like the movie and it will certainly not agree with you.
You don't seem to understand how the tomatometer works. Instead of it being similar to a 1-10 or star rating that gives an average over review scores, it is simply what percentage of reviewers were positive instead of negative. I find it quite easy to believe that only 1 out of 10 professional critics found the movie good overall. Now, rottentomatoes also averages the score of the same reviewers and for After Earth it gets 3.8/10. I suspect when you were expecting better than 30%, you were thinking something like average score, i.e. the reviewers did not thing it was good, but did not punish it by giving it a 1 out of 10 score. And that is indeed the case, on average they gave it a 2/5 or 4/10.
Although I don't blindly follow critics, I do look at rottentomatoes and it usually gives at least an indication of what to expect. Sometimes even reviewers themselves are polarized, but since you get review "blurbs" if you scroll down you quickly figure out if things that reviewers like/dislike are the things you like/dislike. IMDB is also a great score, since I more or less agree with it for quite a lot more movies than the ones I disagree with it, which is not something I can say about many other ratings. Also note that IMDB has a genre bias, so for example a comedy getting 6.5 might actually mean a decent comedy when a drama getting 6.5 is probably not good. But you learn to use it and it helps narrowing down what to watch next. It certainly does a helluva better job compared to the VHS covers which was all I had to go with back in the 80's at the movie rental store...
It is a huge space armada passing somewhere between ourselves and the star. And they brake for nobody!
Haha funny guy, because photons have little or no mass. But they are probably using electrons, did you think about that? And electrons are much much much heavier than photons!
Well, no money works for most things in the ST universe since they are in abundance. You can create almost anything via the replicator (and presumably the energy required is practically free). So food, clothing etc is free. But there are still some things that are scarce, like animals (although at least one type of animal in ST has proven to be anything but scarce) or when dealing with other societies that only understand money (and ear rubbing).
So while there are a couple of mentions of "federation credit" that are just sloppy writing, there are legitimate reasons there would be such a system for those edge cases.
in its test flight it had no crew (the Russians thought it was too dangerous!)
Well, they had copied the US designs, and I guess even with their improvements they still didn't quite trust it! ;)
Question is, why didn't the USA develop the automated/remotely controlled capabilities that the Russians had??
The real question is why didn't NASA just buy it off for next to nothing after the fall of the Soviet Union. I mean they ended up relying on much older Soviet technology to get to the ISS, it would have been so much better to have salvaged that nice Buran project...
Do the right thing... for whom? Without a specifier it does not tell us anything. It is definitely not the same as "don't be evil", although we've figured out that Google has not followed that mantra for a while now (not at Apple levels yet!).
I'm in the same boat. For a while now, every update has made things worse for me, usually having to do with my multi-monitor desktop. If I remember correctly the most functional OS X for me was Snow Leopard, it sort of went downhill from there, but I had been forced to do an update every now and then because I had to use a current version of Xcode. Until Yosemite that is - it became so dysfunctional that I got a separate machine as an Xcode box to run Yosemite (and upgrade to El Capitan when Xcode makes me), and my main machine is staying on Mavericks. Similar, the iPad I actually use myself is still on iOS 7, while the iOS devices used for development are on iOS 9...
With windows I have some (older) machines running happily on Windows XP and some newer ones on Windows 7. Sure MS gives us some really crappy OS updates from time to time, but they don't FORCE our hand. Windows XP is older than the first "Cheetah" version of OS X, yet it is actually useful for things and quite functional (if it wasn't for the discontinuation of support for it - MS supported it for many, many more years than Apple does - it would still be a good option for many).
VW has a script that converts CO2 to anything you want while you are in testing mode. Does that count?
While it's kinda impressive that AI can do that, it's also clear that we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human.
What makes you believe we are still a very, very, very long way from having a computer impersonate a human?
It is just the first step of a two step process to protect the South Korean youth from one of the five most common causes of injury or death. The second step is to install gps devices on all electric fans. When the system shows a youth in the same location as a working fan for more than 30 minutes, the authorities will be alerted.