Thank you for reminding me of that. I was also blown away by Watson winning on Jeopardy but obviously not enough.
The problem is that computers seem so advanced a lot of people with basic understanding of them see them as magical things that can do anything if you pay enough for them. However getting them from being glorified calculators to understanding machines that can contemplate like humans is the big step that is going to change the whole game forever. Once computers get intelligent enough to outsmart us they would be able to overcome the barriers of our mental capacity and start by improving themselves and then improving everything else we tell them to, if they will keep listening to us that is, better not call it Skynet then.
That's great that many US citiziens are glad. Meanwhile, Snowden himself can't travel because every country is scared shitless what your government will do to them if they protect the whistleblower from the corrupt government who wants to lock him up for good.
You do live in a democracy right? That means YOU the American people are responsible for your government. Stop being pussies and blaming it on the other 99% of the population and do something about it please. Protest, riot, petition, whatever you need to do... the rest of the world is counting on you.
Why must americans keep confusing socialism and communism? Most western countries including the United States have been moderately socialist for almost a century now and it has made us happier and more prosperous but it still is a scary word to many. Don't they teach any form of politics at school there?
I think that post is more insightful than funny. Probably most/a lot of children are not innocent of harming animals, but will sooner or later develope a sense of moral responsibility and shame about their actions. However if you think it is something to boast about that you tortured helpless creatures it probably is a good idea to have your head examined.
The reason parts of an insect keep moving after they die is because they have independant nervous systems controlling their movement, if you ever saw a spiders legs move after they had been removed from the body you would understand.
What would you consider a less inhumane treatment, somebody smashing you to death in an instant or mutilating your body to make you some kind of gadget controlled android? I know which I one would choose.
Of course, the NSA is investing billions of dollars in collecting and storing this pointless "metadata". Somehow collecting this stuff will improve your safety even though it is of no use. How gullable do they think we are?
Actually no. If you look now the stock price is stable at almost the same level it was before the XBOX One announcement fiasco. So perhaps the market is thinking that these kinds of mistakes could be less likely in the future without Ballmer on board. *ducks*
You know how often the "PC gaming is dying" story has been told for the past 15 years orso? In fact, ever since the PC became a viable alternative to console gaming. Just because some companies are making a ton of money from mostly really bad mobile games doesn't put it under pressure either. PC sales have been down before, remember the dot com bubble crash? With tons of great indie games coming out and the PC basically turning into a console with Steam Big Picture as consoles have been turning into PC's I think the PC gaming market is in better shape than ever.
Really? Because I feel we could have an officer Barbrady situation here. Once he gets sent back to school the town goes apeshit. Looks like the monkey boy was keeping it together after all!
Kinect was a interesting product that they under-captilized on. Why weren't they able to do with motion tracking what Apple did with touch based interfaces? Build an entire new ecosystem of products and services that never existed before?
Because motion tracking as it is at the moment is only useful for dancing games, for any other type of purpose it is more effort, less responsive than other controllers and in many cases completely unworkable. The fact that MS failed to recognize this after their first attempt shows how much out of touch they are with the wishes of the consumer and the product they are making, a gaming device.
In the States that perhaps is still the case. In the rest of the world, especially here in Europe Apple lost a lot of its "cool" factor and Samsung has a clear lead over Apple with other high end brands also doing well. I think this is totally deserved since Apple doesn't back up their premium prices with premium support, far from it.
You don't just have to look at the fact that there is a disproportionate amount of black people in jail, there are more disturbing statistics:
- A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists.
- Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement.
- The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes.
But the most interesting statistic for this debate is this:
- The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offenses.
So for a black person living up in a poor community in the USA (which is likely since a much larger percentage of hispanic and black people live in poor areas) you are basically branded as a criminal from birth. And you have a one in three chance of going to prison. Black people are aware of this of course, when society already treats you as a criminal due to the way you look then what motivation do you have to work hard to become a respected citizen? Especially when you are often put at a disadvantage.
I live in the Netherlands where the role blacks used to have ("passing the black pete" is an expression meaning passing the blame in Dutch) is now passed on to the Maroccans. I remember working in a toy store for a short time 10 years ago. One of the first things the manager told me was to keep an eye on Maroccans if I saw them enter the store. I remember thinking that I couldn't really blame them for living up to their reputation if I ever caught them stealing. Why even try to become a valued member of a society that will not accept you as an equal?
So if you want to keep entertaining the thought that there must be something wrong with black people that makes them more criminal than other races then you should keep ignoring the fact that in most other cultures there are other minorities who get blamed for most crap and consequently have a hard time in life which stimulates more criminal behaviour. Rinse and repeat.
Exactly. I think it is only the Americans who use the term "French fries" to refer to chips in general. I don't know about Belgium but in the Netherlands where we speak the same language we call the thin, long chips "Franse frieten" which means exactly the same. We also refer to "Vlaamse frieten" (Vlamingen is the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) but they are the opposite from French fries, instead of being long and thin they are medium length and much thicker than regular fries. To complicate matters even further we refer to chips/fries as "patat" in the Netherlands which is the Belgian word for potato.
Right. And we can't be any more inviting than allowing foreign people to "come in" our country.
Can't be much more inviting than cheap pot&prostitutes and identical passwords for everybody that translate as "Welcome".
Doesn't surprise me much... KPN is a shit company who are still benefitting from being the previously state-owned telecom provider, meaning they can milk their customer base without having to do too much about anything, including security.
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I think there's a worm in this apple.
I'm not sure if Russia and Uganda are the main growth markets for Firefox.
Facebook isn't on the list at least, that would be just too ironic.
Thank you for reminding me of that. I was also blown away by Watson winning on Jeopardy but obviously not enough.
The problem is that computers seem so advanced a lot of people with basic understanding of them see them as magical things that can do anything if you pay enough for them. However getting them from being glorified calculators to understanding machines that can contemplate like humans is the big step that is going to change the whole game forever. Once computers get intelligent enough to outsmart us they would be able to overcome the barriers of our mental capacity and start by improving themselves and then improving everything else we tell them to, if they will keep listening to us that is, better not call it Skynet then.
That's great that many US citiziens are glad. Meanwhile, Snowden himself can't travel because every country is scared shitless what your government will do to them if they protect the whistleblower from the corrupt government who wants to lock him up for good.
You do live in a democracy right? That means YOU the American people are responsible for your government. Stop being pussies and blaming it on the other 99% of the population and do something about it please. Protest, riot, petition, whatever you need to do... the rest of the world is counting on you.
Oh Mark doesn't even want people to film him in public without his permission, which he won't give you. Biggest hypocrit I've ever heard of.
I finally understand the connection between Google and self steering cars!
More time to surf the internets if you don't have to steer at all.
Why must americans keep confusing socialism and communism? Most western countries including the United States have been moderately socialist for almost a century now and it has made us happier and more prosperous but it still is a scary word to many. Don't they teach any form of politics at school there?
I think that post is more insightful than funny. Probably most/a lot of children are not innocent of harming animals, but will sooner or later develope a sense of moral responsibility and shame about their actions. However if you think it is something to boast about that you tortured helpless creatures it probably is a good idea to have your head examined.
The reason parts of an insect keep moving after they die is because they have independant nervous systems controlling their movement, if you ever saw a spiders legs move after they had been removed from the body you would understand.
What would you consider a less inhumane treatment, somebody smashing you to death in an instant or mutilating your body to make you some kind of gadget controlled android? I know which I one would choose.
Of course, the NSA is investing billions of dollars in collecting and storing this pointless "metadata". Somehow collecting this stuff will improve your safety even though it is of no use. How gullable do they think we are?
Actually no. If you look now the stock price is stable at almost the same level it was before the XBOX One announcement fiasco. So perhaps the market is thinking that these kinds of mistakes could be less likely in the future without Ballmer on board. *ducks*
You know how often the "PC gaming is dying" story has been told for the past 15 years orso? In fact, ever since the PC became a viable alternative to console gaming. Just because some companies are making a ton of money from mostly really bad mobile games doesn't put it under pressure either. PC sales have been down before, remember the dot com bubble crash? With tons of great indie games coming out and the PC basically turning into a console with Steam Big Picture as consoles have been turning into PC's I think the PC gaming market is in better shape than ever.
So we can dance on their graves in penguin costumes chanting the sacred code.
Really? Because I feel we could have an officer Barbrady situation here. Once he gets sent back to school the town goes apeshit. Looks like the monkey boy was keeping it together after all!
Kinect was a interesting product that they under-captilized on. Why weren't they able to do with motion tracking what Apple did with touch based interfaces? Build an entire new ecosystem of products and services that never existed before?
Because motion tracking as it is at the moment is only useful for dancing games, for any other type of purpose it is more effort, less responsive than other controllers and in many cases completely unworkable. The fact that MS failed to recognize this after their first attempt shows how much out of touch they are with the wishes of the consumer and the product they are making, a gaming device.
If by stable you mean reliably underperforming and making the wrong descisions then it has been very stable indeed.
In the high end market apple is still king.
In the States that perhaps is still the case. In the rest of the world, especially here in Europe Apple lost a lot of its "cool" factor and Samsung has a clear lead over Apple with other high end brands also doing well. I think this is totally deserved since Apple doesn't back up their premium prices with premium support, far from it.
install it in a virtual machine, run it from there, this is lame.
I am guessing they will be providing a license that allows you to do that. For a premium of course.
You don't just have to look at the fact that there is a disproportionate amount of black people in jail, there are more disturbing statistics:
- A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists.
- Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement.
- The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than white offenders for the same crimes.
But the most interesting statistic for this debate is this:
- The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offenses.
So for a black person living up in a poor community in the USA (which is likely since a much larger percentage of hispanic and black people live in poor areas) you are basically branded as a criminal from birth. And you have a one in three chance of going to prison. Black people are aware of this of course, when society already treats you as a criminal due to the way you look then what motivation do you have to work hard to become a respected citizen? Especially when you are often put at a disadvantage.
I live in the Netherlands where the role blacks used to have ("passing the black pete" is an expression meaning passing the blame in Dutch) is now passed on to the Maroccans. I remember working in a toy store for a short time 10 years ago. One of the first things the manager told me was to keep an eye on Maroccans if I saw them enter the store. I remember thinking that I couldn't really blame them for living up to their reputation if I ever caught them stealing. Why even try to become a valued member of a society that will not accept you as an equal?
So if you want to keep entertaining the thought that there must be something wrong with black people that makes them more criminal than other races then you should keep ignoring the fact that in most other cultures there are other minorities who get blamed for most crap and consequently have a hard time in life which stimulates more criminal behaviour. Rinse and repeat.
Exactly. I think it is only the Americans who use the term "French fries" to refer to chips in general. I don't know about Belgium but in the Netherlands where we speak the same language we call the thin, long chips "Franse frieten" which means exactly the same. We also refer to "Vlaamse frieten" (Vlamingen is the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) but they are the opposite from French fries, instead of being long and thin they are medium length and much thicker than regular fries. To complicate matters even further we refer to chips/fries as "patat" in the Netherlands which is the Belgian word for potato.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_1
May want to image google for "English judges", that wig is so old school it HAS to be cool again.
Well that explains why his name in Dutch means "Daniel Stupidshit-Mountain" and also why he changed it.
Right. And we can't be any more inviting than allowing foreign people to "come in" our country.
Can't be much more inviting than cheap pot&prostitutes and identical passwords for everybody that translate as "Welcome".
Doesn't surprise me much... KPN is a shit company who are still benefitting from being the previously state-owned telecom provider, meaning they can milk their customer base without having to do too much about anything, including security.