I would guess that the wireless carriers will pay huge roaming charges to Google until they can fix their own towers. I hope that cost won't be passed on to consumers.
Exactly. If I can't turn on the front defroster without looking away from the road, I don't want the car.
It seems like the way to handle a car with a touchscreen is a few tactile but unlabeled knobs for critical functions. Although I don't like the idea of a computer controlling critical functions of a car at all.
I once read a story about a guy who developed bacteria that convert food into (tiny amounts of) alcohol instead of acid. He also bred them to out-compete the normal tooth bacteria. But because they're genetically engineered, they couldn't be developed for human use.
I think control is going to have to be exercised at the browser design level. The browser will have to limit CPU usage for each tab, and limit it more or stop all scripts completely when the tab is out of focus.
It would be nice if we could get sites to not run miners when you're running on batteries, but that may be hard to enforce. It also brings back the problem of mobile devices being harder to monetize.
Just in time, coin mining is coming to replace ads.
I suppose the next step will be to make all links internal to a site with ajax, so the coin mining script can run continuously as long as a user is on the site.
I was going to post something like this, but I don't think over-the-air digital media is dead. Television signals, as originally created, are dead. But over-the-air digital media is very much alive. See the related Slashdot link from the box at the bottom of the page: https://entertainment.slashdot...
I can imagine robots doing most of crown molding. First, a device laser-measures the walls and ceiling. Then the measurements are sent out to a factory, where robots custom-build the molding parts. Finally I can imagine a robot placing and nailing the parts. But even if a robot doesn't finish the job, a robot in a factory could mean one person does twice as many jobs.
And a Roomba could almost be converted for sanding floors, but it's not quite strong enough or even enough.
Don't get me wrong, AI still has a job to do. I'm just suggesting classical algorithms can help avoid some obvious mistakes, and also can alert developers when the AI is attempting to make an obvious mistake and might need retraining. (Or might need backdoors removed in this case.)
Where I live, yellow-and-black speed limit signs are usually optional, suggested speeds. Figuring out what a sign means needs to be done at a higher level than figuring out what a sign is.
As for advertising with road signs, maybe we should just outlaw it.
1. Start with a system to identify where the sign is - I'm not sure how to do that, but video motion identification might help. 2. Next, take the center quarter of the sign area, and identify pixel colors. If the sign is strongly biased toward reddish pixels, it can't be a speed limit sign. General bins would seem to be red-and-white (stop, yield), yellow-and-black (hazard signs), white-and-black (speed limit, directions), green-and-white (lane identification, mile markers), and maybe blue-and-other-colors for highway identification.
Granted, post-its could make a stop sign be identified as a hazard sign, but it would take a lot of post-its.
I'm guessing they included the economic benefit from people who wouldn't have died, but would have taken sick days or been hospitalized or the like. That's probably a lot more than the number of lives saved.
That should be all we need to support illiterate users. Web sites should already be usable with screen readers used by the blind. Then the only thing necessary for illiterate users of screen readers should be voice control.
The funny thing is that USPS doesn't deliver to my door. I have to go to the post office to pick up my mail. I got Prime thinking a Amazon would deliver to my door via UPS or FedEx. Since they deliver through USPS now, this makes Prime a bad deal for me, and I think I may cancel it soon.
For Linux on the desktop, it seems like it should be possible to have apps, like a web browser and email client, that have their own users. You could then run the apps via sudo and they'd only have access to files for their user or group. But last time I tried this I couldn't get it to work. Has anyone else done this successfully?
Not exactly the same phenomenon. Heat outside a hot air balloon will ground it even more easily than it grounds an airplane. That's why hot air balloons usually fly in the mornings.
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Is that irony you're smelling, or vodka?
(In other words, I think they're still at it.)
I would guess that the wireless carriers will pay huge roaming charges to Google until they can fix their own towers. I hope that cost won't be passed on to consumers.
Exactly. If I can't turn on the front defroster without looking away from the road, I don't want the car.
It seems like the way to handle a car with a touchscreen is a few tactile but unlabeled knobs for critical functions. Although I don't like the idea of a computer controlling critical functions of a car at all.
That's not typing by brain. That's typing by muscles. It won't work for paralyzed people like Stephen Hawking.
I once read a story about a guy who developed bacteria that convert food into (tiny amounts of) alcohol instead of acid. He also bred them to out-compete the normal tooth bacteria. But because they're genetically engineered, they couldn't be developed for human use.
I think control is going to have to be exercised at the browser design level. The browser will have to limit CPU usage for each tab, and limit it more or stop all scripts completely when the tab is out of focus.
It would be nice if we could get sites to not run miners when you're running on batteries, but that may be hard to enforce. It also brings back the problem of mobile devices being harder to monetize.
Honestly, how many people are going to do that much work?
Plus it's more efficient to block the mining scripts with NoScript or the like, and run a native mining client yourself.
Just in time, coin mining is coming to replace ads.
I suppose the next step will be to make all links internal to a site with ajax, so the coin mining script can run continuously as long as a user is on the site.
intelligence
n noun
1 the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
knowledge: The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
learning: The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
These things can be defined, but you get some circular definitions pretty quickly.
I was going to post something like this, but I don't think over-the-air digital media is dead. Television signals, as originally created, are dead. But over-the-air digital media is very much alive. See the related Slashdot link from the box at the bottom of the page: https://entertainment.slashdot...
I can imagine robots doing most of crown molding. First, a device laser-measures the walls and ceiling. Then the measurements are sent out to a factory, where robots custom-build the molding parts. Finally I can imagine a robot placing and nailing the parts. But even if a robot doesn't finish the job, a robot in a factory could mean one person does twice as many jobs.
And a Roomba could almost be converted for sanding floors, but it's not quite strong enough or even enough.
The term is "air-gapped", and it's done all the time in real life.
Don't get me wrong, AI still has a job to do. I'm just suggesting classical algorithms can help avoid some obvious mistakes, and also can alert developers when the AI is attempting to make an obvious mistake and might need retraining. (Or might need backdoors removed in this case.)
Where I live, yellow-and-black speed limit signs are usually optional, suggested speeds. Figuring out what a sign means needs to be done at a higher level than figuring out what a sign is.
As for advertising with road signs, maybe we should just outlaw it.
Take the road signs for example.
1. Start with a system to identify where the sign is - I'm not sure how to do that, but video motion identification might help.
2. Next, take the center quarter of the sign area, and identify pixel colors. If the sign is strongly biased toward reddish pixels, it can't be a speed limit sign. General bins would seem to be red-and-white (stop, yield), yellow-and-black (hazard signs), white-and-black (speed limit, directions), green-and-white (lane identification, mile markers), and maybe blue-and-other-colors for highway identification.
Granted, post-its could make a stop sign be identified as a hazard sign, but it would take a lot of post-its.
For between $20-$50 up front, plus maybe a $20-$50 tuner, you can get several channels at no additional cost!
Yet another kids' programming language, from yet another school, Carnegie Mellon, is Alice.
I'm guessing they included the economic benefit from people who wouldn't have died, but would have taken sick days or been hospitalized or the like. That's probably a lot more than the number of lives saved.
That should be all we need to support illiterate users. Web sites should already be usable with screen readers used by the blind. Then the only thing necessary for illiterate users of screen readers should be voice control.
I use MX Player too, to play all the videos I've reencoded on my computer. It even managed to play a (low-rez) h.265 video on my four year old tablet.
I just wish they hadn't put in so much intrusive advertising.
I installed the appropriate font for Linux, and I can see emojis.
Is it a yellow six-pointed star?
The funny thing is that USPS doesn't deliver to my door. I have to go to the post office to pick up my mail. I got Prime thinking a Amazon would deliver to my door via UPS or FedEx. Since they deliver through USPS now, this makes Prime a bad deal for me, and I think I may cancel it soon.
Won't have batteries, so it won't catch fire.
I know the parent was a joke, but I don't see any name in TFS either. So may I propose the "Samsung Galaxy Commander"?
For Linux on the desktop, it seems like it should be possible to have apps, like a web browser and email client, that have their own users. You could then run the apps via sudo and they'd only have access to files for their user or group. But last time I tried this I couldn't get it to work. Has anyone else done this successfully?
Not exactly the same phenomenon. Heat outside a hot air balloon will ground it even more easily than it grounds an airplane. That's why hot air balloons usually fly in the mornings.